Amiriyah shelter bombing
| Amiriyah Shelter Bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Gulf War | |
| Type | Airstrike |
| Location | Al-A'amiriya, Baghdad, Iraq 33°17′50″N 44°16′50″E / 33.29722°N 44.28056°E |
| Date | February 13, 1991 |
| Executed by | United States Air Force |
| Casualties | 408+ killed Unknown injured |
The Amiriyah Shelter Bombing was an aerial bombing attack that 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 "smart bombs". Human Rights Watch characterised the bombing as a war crime.
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", 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.