Contemporary era · 1991

Amiriyah shelter bombing

An aerial bombing attack killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") 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.

Amiriyah shelter bombing · Wikimedia Commons
When
13 Feb 1991
Where
Al-A'amiriya
Era
Contemporary

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