Taliban attack on Khawaja Omari district
Incident- Date
- Apr 12, 2018
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Khwaja Umari
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.6889660495092
Longitude: 68.4011996924613
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Khwaja Umari
- Town/Village
- Khwaja Umari
- Types of incident
- Ground Attack
- Conflict parties
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
The security officials of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan say that the Taliban attack on Khawaja Omari district has left at least 14 dead and 10 injured. The Ghazni police chief said that Ali Dost Shams, the district governor of Khajah Omari, was also killed in this attack. It is said that the Taliban took control of the district center for an hour, but now the government forces are stationed there.
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- No of victims involved
- 7
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