Bombing Coaster minibus in Dasht-e-Barchi (2024)

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Date
۱۷ دی ۱۴۰۲
Year of Incident
2024
Province of incident
Kabul: Kabul City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kabul
Town Village
Dasht-e-Barchi, West Kabul
Types of Incident
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Cruel treatment
  • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
  • War crime: Murder
  • 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
  • Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
Summary

On January 6, 2024, a targeted attack unfolded in the Qalai-e-Nazir area of Dasht-e-Barchi, located in the western suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb detonated within a Toyota Coaster minibus full of passengers, leading to the unfortunate loss of 7 civilian lives and causing injuries to an additional 14 individuals. The ISIL-KP has claimed responsibility for this attack, stating that the group's target was the Shia-Hazara community in Dasht-e-Barchi.

Sources

AHRDO Archive

Hazara Genocide Archive

Etilaatroz

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Independent Farsi

VOA Dari

DW Farsi

No of victims involved
7