Coal Heater Landmine Explosion, Kandahar (2025)
Incident- Date
- Nov 24, 2025
- Year of incident
- 2025
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Maywand
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6619926489105
Longitude: 64.9910104012577
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Maywand
- Town/Village
- Badzi village, Qala-e Shah Mir area, Maywand district, Kandahar Province
- Types of incident
- Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)
- Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Conflict parties
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic State of Afghanistan
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On November 24, 2025, a landmine concealed inside a coal heater detonated in a family home in Badzi village, Qala-e Shah Mir area of Maywand district, Kandahar Province. According to local Taliban authorities in Kandahar, the explosion resulted in two fatalities and seven injuries. The victims included women and children from the affected household. The explosive device had been placed inside the family's coal heater, a common household heating appliance. The circumstances surrounding how the mine came to be positioned inside the heater, as well as the identity of those responsible and their motive, remain unknown. No further information regarding the incident has been made available.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 9