Media Offices Bomb Attack - Nangarhar (2015)
Incident- Date
- Jun 10, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Jalalabad
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.4552967856833
Longitude: 70.4518092111804
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Jalalabad
- Town/Village
- Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province
- Types of incident
- Anti-Personnel Mine
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Other inhumane acts
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On June 10, 2015, a bomb exploded at the offices of Pajhwok Afghan News in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province. Pajhwok, Afghanistan's largest news agency, reported that their journalists escaped injury in the attack. However, four guests at the nearby Voice of America office were wounded, and the explosion damaged office equipment at the Pajhwok facility.
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- No of victims involved
- 4
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