Roadside Bomb Kills Two Teenage Girls in Civilian Van in Kandahar (2018)
Incident- Date
- Oct 4, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Zhari
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6603585946358
Longitude: 65.3597259521484
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Zhari
- Town/Village
- Dasht area, Zhari district, Kandahar province
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- 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
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On October 4, 2018, a civilian van struck a roadside bomb in the Dasht area of Zhari district, killing two teenage girls and wounding 16 other passengers. Among the wounded were two women and a child. This incident demonstrates the vulnerability of civilian transportation to indiscriminate explosive devices planted along roadways.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 18
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