January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack
Details
Part of War in Afghanistan (2001–present) | |
Location | Kabul, Afghanistan |
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Date | 14 January 2014 |
Attack type | Suicide bombing, mass shooting |
Weapons | Bomb, guns |
Deaths | 21 (+1 bomber) |
Perpetrators | Taliban |
Sources
January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack
Introduction
On January 17, 2014, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gate of the Taverna du Liban, a heavily fortified restaurant in Kabul popular with foreign nationals, including diplomats, aid workers and journalists; two gunmen then entered the building and began "shooting indiscriminately." 21 people were slain.
The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Casualties
Nationality | Dead |
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8 |
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2 |
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2 |
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2 |
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2 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
Total | 21 |
- Wabel Abdallah, head of the Afghanistan office of the International Monetary Fund.
- Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of energy and of the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Petersen had recently joined the faculty at the American University in Kabul.