Civilian Killed in Bomb Targeting District Officials - Ghōr 2019
Incident- Date
- Jul 23, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Ghor: Dawlat Yar
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5581103936567
Longitude: 65.7663436927913
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Dawlat Yar
- Town/Village
- Dawlat Yar, Ghōr Province
- Types of incident
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- Targeted Killing
- 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
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A roadside bomb placed close to the district council compound in Dawlat Yar District detonated, killing one civilian. The intended target was the district governor and other officials who were heading to the council, but all escaped unharmed. The improvised explosive device was positioned to target government officials but instead resulted in civilian casualties.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1
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