District Governor Killed in Roadside Bombing - Herat (2019)
Incident- Date
- Aug 3, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Herat: Zinda Jan
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.7022687377339
Longitude: 61.7166588530807
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Zinda Jan
- Town/Village
- Zinda Jan, Herat Province
- Types of incident
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Roadside Bomb
- Targeted Killing
- 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
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A roadside bomb struck the vehicle of Shokrullah Shaker, the district governor of Zendah Jan, killing him and three police officers. Five other officers were wounded in the incident. The improvised explosive device was targeted at the government official's convoy, resulting in the death of the civilian administrator along with security personnel.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 1
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