Civilian Killed in Police-Military Firefight - Uruzgan (2019)
Incident- Date
- Jul 27, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Uruzgan: Tarin Kowt
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.6669194646242
Longitude: 65.9068082869349
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Tarin Kowt
- Town/Village
- Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province
- Types of incident
- Clash
- Shooting
- Small Arms Fires
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Police officers and soldiers opened fire on each other after an unexplained verbal dispute in Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital. One soldier and one civilian were killed, and three police officers were wounded. The civilian casualty occurred during the armed confrontation between the security forces following their dispute.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1
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