Child Killed by Police Fire at Wedding Convoy - Ghazni 2019
Incident- Date
- Apr 13, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Ghazni City
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.553649501162
Longitude: 68.4306428259085
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Ghazni City
- Town/Village
- Ghazni City, Ghazni Province
- Types of incident
- Shooting
- Small Arms Fires
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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
A child was killed and two civilians were wounded when police officers at the entrance of Ghazni City fired into the air as a wedding convoy entered the city. The gunfire struck one of the convoy vehicles, resulting in civilian casualties among the wedding party. Following the incident, the officer responsible for opening fire was arrested and will face prosecution for the shooting.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 3
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