Boys Killed in Mortar Strike on Mosque During Fighting - Nangarhar (2015)
Incident- Date
- Oct 30, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Achin
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.0826692263006
Longitude: 70.6667628480014
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Achin
- Town/Village
- Rooski Village, Achin District, Nangarhar Province
- Types of incident
- Clash
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Mortar Shell
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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
On 30 October 2015, a mortar fired during an armed clash between Afghan National Security Forces and Daesh killed four boys and injured eight other civilians, including five children. The mortar landed on a mosque in Rooski Village, Achin District, Nangarhar Province on a Friday afternoon.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 12
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