Roadside Bomb Killed 11 Passengers in Jalrez, Maidan Wardak. (2020)
Incident- Date
- Oct 20, 2020
- Year of incident
- 2020
- Province of incident
- Maidan Wardak: Jalrez
- Town/Village
- Kota-e-Ashro
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Resolute Support (RS)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Inhuman treatment
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Act of genocide: Killing
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On October 20, 2020, two Flank Kouch minibusses, transporting passengers from Kabul to the Waras district in Bamyan province, were struck by a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban. The explosion occurred in the Kota-e-Ashro area of Jalrez district in Maidan Wardak province, resulting in the tragic loss of 11 lives and injuries to four others. Among the victims were women and children, all part of the same family from the Waras District of Bamyan. They were traveling from Kabul to visit their relatives in Waras.
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- No of victims involved
- 11
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