School Students Caught in Crossfire - Jowzjan (2015)
Incident- Date
- Apr 15, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Jowzjan: Shibirghan
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.6824798459403
Longitude: 65.7514994646379
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Shibirghan
- Town/Village
- Shibirghan City, Jowzjan Province
- Types of incident
- Ambush
- Barrage of Bullets
- Clash
- Small Arms Fires
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: April 15, 2015
Location: Near a school, Shibirghan City, Jowzjan Province
Victims: Two students wounded (girls)
Perpetrators: Anti-government elements and Afghan National Police (ANP)
Incident Type: Crossfire during ambush
Narrative:
On April 15, 2015, Anti-government elements ambushed a passing fuel convoy near a school in Shibirghan City, Jowzjan Province. The Afghan National Police responded to the attack, resulting in an exchange of gunfire. During this crossfire, two female students inside the school were wounded. One of the injured girls provided a witness account of the incident.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 2