Body-Borne IED Suicide Attack - Khost (2015)
Incident- Date
- Apr 2, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Khost: Khost Matun
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.364907751047
Longitude: 69.942398071289
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Khost (Matun)
- Town/Village
- Khost City, Khost Province
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Suicide Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Other inhumane acts
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: April 2, 2015
Location: Khost City, Khost Province
Victims:
Nineteen civilians killed (including one child)
Sixty-one civilians injured (including eight children)
Perpetrators: Unknown
Incident Type: Body-borne IED suicide attack
Narrative:
On April 2, 2015, a body-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) suicide attack occurred in Khost City, Khost Province. The explosion resulted in the deaths of nineteen civilians, including one child. Sixty-one civilians were injured in the attack, among them eight children.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 80
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