Displaced Families Casualties in IED Explosion - Helmand (2015)
Incident- Date
- Jun 20, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Helmand: Marjah
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6673540035581
Longitude: 64.2602323537188
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Nad Ali
- Town/Village
- Marjah District, Helmand 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)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On June 20, 2015, a tractor carrying three families struck a pressure-plated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Marjah District of Helmand Province. The families were returning to their village after having fled due to ground engagement between Afghan Security Forces and Anti-Government Elements. The explosion killed sixteen civilians, including eleven women and three children, and injured seven others.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 23
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