Five Wounded in Bamiyan Armed Attack Receive Treatment at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul

Five people wounded in an armed attack in Bamiyan (approximately 200 km northwest of Kabul) were brought to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul yesterday evening (17 May). The group consists of nationals from Spain, Lithuania, Norway, Australia, and Afghanistan.

According to accounts by authorities and the media, three Spanish nationals and one Afghan national were reportedly killed in the attack.

“The wounded people arrived at our hospital at 3am this morning, about 10 hours after the incident took place,” explains Dejan Panic, EMERGENCY’s Country Director in Afghanistan. “The Afghan national was the most critically injured, but all patients are now stable. Although security and access to the country has improved since the end of the conflict and the change of government in 2021, we still receive patients injured by firearms, shrapnel or explosives due to criminality and attacks.”

UPDATE Wednesday, 22 May 2024. Five patients, four of them foreign tourists, were received at the Kabul Surgical Centre in the early hours of Saturday morning following an armed attack in Bamiyan on Friday 17 May. Three of the foreign nationals have been treated and discharged. A fourth foreign national and one Afghan national remain admitted. EMERGENCY NGO will continue to provide them with free, high-quality care and support their recovery.