Taliban Assassinate Deputy District Governor in Gosfandi, Sar-e Pul (2019)
Incident- Date
- Feb 2, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Sare Pol: Gosfandi
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.2215966088889
Longitude: 65.9277670687403
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Gosfandi
- Town/Village
- Gosfandi district, Sare Pol province
- Types of incident
- Assassination
- Shooting
- 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)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- 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 February 2, 2019, Taliban fighters shot and killed the Gosfandi deputy district governor as he was returning home from evening prayer. Pro-government militia members present in the area killed one of the attackers during the incident. This represents a targeted assassination of a local government official by the Taliban.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 1
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