Roadside Bomb Kills Six Civilians Including Children in Farah (2017)
Incident- Date
- Jul 4, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Farah: Shib Koh
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.414955684086
Longitude: 61.228864503845
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Shib Koh
- Town/Village
- Momin Abad area, Shib Koh district, Farah 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)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- 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 : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On July 4, 2017, six civilians were killed and six others wounded when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Momin Abad while traveling toward the provincial capital of Farah. According to officials, children were among those killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for planting the explosive device.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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