Civilian Vehicle Mine Strike - Nimruz (2015)
Incident- Date
- Apr 22, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nimruz: Khash Rod
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.1339611458752
Longitude: 62.8726550933089
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Khash Rod
- Town/Village
- Khash Rod District, Nimruz Province
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: April 22, 2015
Location: Khash Rod District, Nimruz Province
Victims: Six civilians killed (including three boys, one girl, and one woman)
One civilian injured
Perpetrators: Unknown
Incident Type: Pressure-plate IED explosion
Narrative:
On April 22, 2015, a civilian vehicle carrying seven people struck a pressure-plate Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Khash Rod District of Nimruz Province. The explosion killed six civilians, including three boys, one girl, and one woman. One civilian survived with injuries.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 7