Twin bombings at the Sayed-al-Shuhada girls' primary school killed at least 91 students and wounded 147 others

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Date
۱۸ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۰
Year of Incident
2021
Province of incident
Kabul: Kabul City
Combined geolocations

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Exact geolocation of incident
Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kabul
Town Village
Barchi, West Kabul
Types of Incident
  • Complex attack
  • Explosion
  • Heavy Weapon attack
  • Suicide attack
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
  • Vehicle-borne Suicide Attack
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Resolute Support (RS)
  • Taliban
  • US forces
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Cruel treatment
  • War crime: Denying quarter
  • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
  • War crime: Inhuman treatment
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
  • War crime: Use of mines against civilians
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
  • Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
  • Act of genocide: Killing
  • Crime against humanity: Extermination
  • Crime against humanity: Murder
  • Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
  • Crime against humanity: Persecution
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

Twin bombings at the Sayed-al-Shuhada girls' primary school in western Kabul have killed at least 91 students and wounded 147 others. There were two explosions in the incident, the first explosion did not kill so many but gathered hundreds to help the injured, then the second explosion left the most casualties. No one has claimed responsibility for this brutal terrorist attack.

Sources

https://www.hazaragenocide.com/sayed-o-shuhada/

No of victims involved
100