Mortar Explosion Kills Four Civilians in Herat (2018)
Incident- Date
- Dec 20, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Herat: Chishti Sharif
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.3406961521371
Longitude: 63.7532232847663
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Chishti Sharif
- Town/Village
- Chishti Sharif district, Herat province
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Mortar Shell
- 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)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- 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 : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On December 20, 2018, a mortar exploded in Chishti Sharif district, killing four civilians and wounding three others. The source of the mortar and circumstances of the explosion were not specified. This incident represents civilian casualties caused by indirect fire weapons in a populated area.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 7
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