Amiriyah shelter bombing

When

13 Feb 1991

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

408

Coordinates

33.30° N, 44.28° E

Description

military aerial bombing in Iraq

Gulf War bombing of a civilian shelter in Iraq

An aerial bombing attack killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided bombs. Human Rights Watch characterised the bombing as a war crime.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Amiriyah sığınağı bombalaması: İki lazer güdümlü "akıllı bomba", Bağdat'ın Amiriyah mahallesindeki bir yeraltı sığınağını imha ederek yüzlerce Iraklıyı öldürdü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “война в Персидском заливе: в Багдаде бомбы с лазерным наведением разрушили подземный бункер, погибли несколько сотен иракцев”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حرب الخليج: غارتان من قبل القوات الجوية الأمريكية على ملجأ العامرية في بغداد تسفر عن مقتل حوالي 400 شخص مدني منهم أطفال”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page