Motorcycle Bomb Kills Civilians in Provincial Capital - Herat (2019)
Incident- Date
- Aug 6, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Herat: Herat City
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.3494235694824
Longitude: 62.1891939162627
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Herat City
- Town/Village
- Haji Abbas area, Herat City, Herat Province
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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 : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Five civilians were killed and 29 others were wounded when a motorcycle laden with explosives exploded in the Haji Abbas area of Herat City, the provincial capital. The vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated in the urban area, causing significant casualties among the civilian population.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 34
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