Taliban attack on the employees of a demining institute in Herat
Incident- Date
- Jul 10, 2014
- Year of incident
- 2014
- Province of incident
- Herat: Kohsan
- Town/Village
- Kamana and Bonyad
- Types of incident
- Ground Attack
- Conflict parties
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Armed Taliban killed a number of employees of a demining company and took some hostages in Herat province. Herat security authorities have announced that this incident took place around 7 am today in the district of Khesan. General Samiullah Qatre, commander of Herat Police, says: This incident took place in the "Kamane and Foundation" area of Kehsan district after several members of the Hilotrust demining company were identifying areas with mines. According to his words; After attacking these people, the armed Taliban killed 6 militants and took 2 others with them. It is said that among the dead were 4 bodyguards, 1 driver and 1 bomb detection engineer.
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