Taliban Assassination of Army General Khan Agha in Kandahar (2016)
Incident- Date
- Mar 25, 2016
- Year of incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Dand
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6603585946358
Longitude: 65.3597259521484
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Dand
- Town/Village
- Dand District, Kandahar
- Types of incident
- Assassination
- Ground Attack
- Murder
- Shooting
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Other
- 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 : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On March 25, 2016, Taliban militants assassinated Khan Agha, an Afghan army general, in southern Afghanistan. During the attack, the general's 17-year-old son was also injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the targeted killing of a high-ranking military official.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 2
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