Taliban fighters on a motorcycle opened fire on security forces at a checkpoint killing one woman and wounding two civilians and two police officers
Incident
Date
May 14, 2020
Year of incident
2020
Province of incident
Herat: Ghoryan
District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.3405171328293
Longitude: 61.4998472752103
District geolocation of incident (linkedIncident)
Ghoryan
Town/Village
Sarak-e-Naw
Types of incident
Small Arms Fires
Conflict parties
Taliban
Alleged types of crimes
War crime: Attacking civilians
Summary of incident
Taliban fighters on a motorcycle opened fire on security forces at a checkpoint in the village of Sarak-e-Naw in Ghoryan District, killing one woman and wounding two civilians and two police officers.
Source_1
Afghan War Casualty Report: May 2020, New York Times, 28 May 2020, available at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report-may-2020.html