Amiriyah shelter bombing
1991 bombing of a civilian shelter in Baghdad, Iraq by the US during the Gulf War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Amiriyah shelter bombing[N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Persian 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 "smart bombs".[1][2] The U.S. Department of Defense stated that they "knew the [Amiriyah] facility had been used as a civil-defense shelter during the Iran–Iraq War",[3] while the U.S. military stated they believed the shelter was no longer a civil defense shelter and that they thought it had been converted to a command center or a military personnel bunker.
Amiriyah shelter bombing | |
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Part of the Gulf War | |
Type | Airstrike |
Location | Al-A'amiriya, Baghdad, Iraq 33°17′50″N 44°16′50″E |
Date | February 13, 1991 (1991-02-13) |
Executed by | United States Air Force |
Casualties | 408+ killed Unknown injured |