Government Employees Killed in Bus Bombing - Kabul 2019

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۸ غبرگولی ۱۳
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 Province
Types of Incident
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

An explosive device attached to a shuttle bus transporting government employees detonated in Kabul City, killing five civilians and wounding ten other civilians. The improvised explosive device was affixed to the public transport vehicle used by government workers, causing multiple casualties among the passengers and those in the vicinity.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
15