Suicide Bombing Targeting Security Forces Kills 13 in Helmand (2017)
Incident- Date
- Aug 27, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Helmand: Unknown
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.7739208749532
Longitude: 67.904022693203
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Nawa
- Town/Village
- Nawa district, Helmand province
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- 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 August 27, 2017, at around 6:30 PM local time, a suicide bomber detonated explosives targeting an armored vehicle of security forces in Nawa district. The attack killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 19 others, with over 30 total casualties. According to security officials, both civilians and security personnel were among those killed and wounded in the blast. No group immediately claimed responsibility, though the Taliban were suspected.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 32
sorted by
Date added
0 relationships, 0 entities