Roadside Bomb Kills Six Civilians in Flour Truck in Kandahar (2017)
Incident- Date
- Sep 18, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Daman
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6164958058825
Longitude: 65.8985234689652
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Daman
- Town/Village
- Haji village, Daman district, Kandahar 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)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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 : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On September 18, 2017, at around 4:00 PM, a roadside bomb exploded in Haji village of Daman district, killing six civilians. The hidden explosive device detonated as a civilian truck loaded with flour was traveling to Kandahar city. All six individuals aboard the truck were killed in the blast. Militant groups were suspected of planting the explosive device, though no group claimed responsibility.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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