Market Bombing Kills Ten Civilians Including Children in Badakhshan (2016)
Incident- Date
- Jun 20, 2016
- Year of incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Badakhshan: Kishim
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.7636345472193
Longitude: 70.301076271636
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kishim
- Town/Village
- Kishim district, Badakhshan province
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Explosion
- 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)
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On June 20, 2016, a bomb attack targeted a market in Kishim district of Badakhshan province. The explosion killed 10 civilians, including five children, and injured 36 others, with children comprising the majority of the wounded. No group claimed responsibility for this attack, that primarily affected civilians.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 46
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