TV Station Employees Targeted in ISIL-KP Bicycle Bombing - Kabul (2019)

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Date
۱۳ 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
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
Conflict Parties
  • ISIL-KP
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
  • Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

A remote-controlled improvised explosive device attached to a bicycle detonated, targeting a bus carrying employees of Khurshid private television station. Two men, a taxi driver and a worker at a local fuel station, were killed while three employees of Khurshid TV sustained injuries. ISIL-KP claimed responsibility for the attack on the media workers and civilians in the area.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

UNAMA

No of victims involved
5