Government Employee Assassination in Herat Province (2015)
Incident- Date
- Feb 9, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Herat: Injil
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.6319966101548
Longitude: 62.230924245072
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Injil
- Town/Village
- Injil District, Herat Province, Afghanistan
- Types of incident
- Assassination
- Murder
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Afghan Special Forces (ASF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: February 9, 2015
Location: Injel District, Herat Province
Victims: One provincial employee of the Department of Labour and Social Affairs
Perpetrators: Taliban
Incident Type: Targeted killing
Claimed Responsibility: Taliban
Narrative: On February 9, 2015, a targeted killing occurred in the Injel District of Herat Province, Afghanistan. The victim was a provincial employee of the Department of Labour and Social Affairs. The incident took place near the victim's residence. Following the attack, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing through a statement posted on their official website.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1