Driver Killed at Taliban Checkpoint for Refusing Payment - Ghazni 2019
Incident- Date
- Apr 9, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Qarabagh
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.4264212545648
Longitude: 68.4187264222716
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Qarabagh
- Town/Village
- Moshaki, Qarabagh, Ghazni Province
- Types of incident
- Shooting
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Extortion
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Taliban forces shot and killed a driver and wounded another when the driver refused to pay money demanded by insurgents at a Taliban checkpoint on the highway connecting Kabul and Kandahar in Moshaki village. The incident occurred as the Taliban attempted to extort payment from civilian travelers, killing the driver who refused to comply with their financial demands.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 2
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