Child Killed by Unexploded Device in Flood Waters - Farah 2019
Incident- Date
- Mar 15, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Farah: Unknown
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.1915976650215
Longitude: 63.2814635310572
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Pusht-e Koh
- Town/Village
- Nilam, Pusht-e Koh, Farah Province
- Types of incident
- Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)
- Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)
- Explosion
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A roadside bomb that had been carried by flash floods exploded when a group of children attempted to move it in Nilam village. One child was killed and seven others were wounded in the explosion. All victims were under the age of 20. The improvised explosive device had been displaced from its original location by flood waters before being discovered by the children.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 8
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