Hand Grenade Attack on a House Kills 3 Civilians in Samangan (2018)
Incident- Date
- Oct 3, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Samangan: Hazrati Sultan
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.7354765481424
Longitude: 68.2031146331227
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Hazrati Sultan
- Town/Village
- Hazrati Sultan district, Samangan province
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Explosion
- Hand Grenade
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Local Militia
- 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 : Destruction and appropriation of property
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On October 3, 2018, attackers threw a hand grenade at the house of a former jihadi commander in Hazrat-e-Sultan district. The explosion killed three civilians, including a woman and two children, and wounded another civilian. This attack targeted the residence of a former military leader but resulted in civilian casualties among family members or residents.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 4
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