Improvised Explosive Device Kills Six Family Members in Waza Khwa District (2016)
Incident- Date
- Feb 21, 2016
- Year of incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Paktika: Waza Khwa
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.5082186198022
Longitude: 68.3410455750978
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Waza Khwa
- Town/Village
- Waza Khwa district, Paktika
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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 : Other inhumane acts
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On February 21, 2016, six members of a family were killed when their motorcycle triggered an improvised explosive device in Waza Khwa district. According to Police Chief Zarawr Zahid, the Taliban had placed the IED on the road to target security forces, but the passing civilian motorcycle detonated it instead. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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