Car Bombing Kills Ten Civilians in Capital - Kabul (2019)

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Date
۱۶ مرداد ۱۳۹۸
Year of Incident
2019
Province of incident
Kabul: Kabul City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kabul
Town Village
Kabul City, Kabul
Types of Incident
  • Bombing
  • Explosion
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Other
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Unknown: Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

Ten civilians and four police officers were killed, and 145 people were wounded, including 92 civilians, in a car bombing in Kabul. The vehicle-borne improvised explosive device caused massive casualties in the capital, with the majority of victims being non-combatant civilians.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
102