Civilians Killed in Taliban Attack on Kunduz City - Kunduz 2019
Incident- Date
- Apr 13, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Kunduz: Kunduz city
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.7971548392469
Longitude: 68.8574981689453
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kunduz
- Town/Village
- Kunduz City, Kunduz Province
- Types of incident
- Air Strikes
- Clash
- Complex Attack
- Ground Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Air Forces (AAF)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- US forces
- Alleged types of crimes
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Taliban forces launched an attack on Kunduz City, capturing four security outposts in different parts of the city during a 20-hour battle. The assault was repelled by combined American and Afghan air power supporting ground forces. Six civilians were killed and 41 civilians were wounded during the fighting, along with casualties among security forces including six police officers, four local police officers, one pro-government militia member, and three soldiers. A total of 88 people were wounded and taken to the regional hospital in Kunduz City. Local authorities reported that more than 20 Taliban fighters were killed and 20 others were wounded in the clashes and subsequent airstrikes.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 47