Children Killed Playing with Unexploded Mortar Shell - Baghlan (2019)
Incident- Date
- Sep 23, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Baghlan: Nahrin
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.0667833434471
Longitude: 69.1064066447283
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Nahrin
- Town/Village
- Sayyadi village, Nahrin, Baghlan Province
- Types of incident
- Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)
- Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)
- Explosion
- Conflict parties
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A group of children were playing with a mortar shell in Sayyadi village in Nahrin District when it exploded, killing an 8-year-old child and a mother, and wounding an additional seven children. The incident occurred when minors encountered and handled the unexploded ordnance, which detonated during their interaction with it.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 9
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