Mortar Shelling on Residential House Killed and Injured Civilian in Grishk District, Helmand Province (2015)
Incident- Date
- Jan 2, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Helmand: Gerishk (Nahr-e Saraj)
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.8298756320407
Longitude: 64.5684097224816
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Gerishk (Nahr-e Saraj)
- Town/Village
- Gerishk (Nahr-e-Seraj) District, Helmand Province
- Types of incident
- Mortar Shell
- Murder
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- 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
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Murder
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: January 2, 2015
Location: Gerishk (Nahr-e-Seraj) District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Victims:
One civilian killed (identity not provided) Four women wounded (identities not provided)
Perpetrators: Unknown; Taliban suspected
Incident Type: Mortar shelling on civilian target
Claimed Responsibility: None
Narrative: On January 2, 2015, a mortar shell struck a residential house in the Gerishk (also known as Nahr-e-Seraj) District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The attack resulted in the death of one civilian and injuries to four women. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the shelling. However, suspicion fell on the Taliban, although the specific reasons for this suspicion were not provided in the initial report. The circumstances surrounding the attack, including the intended target and the identities of those responsible, remain unclear.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1