Taliban Abduction of Forty Bus Passengers near Kunduz Capital (2016)
Incident- Date
- Jun 8, 2016
- Year of incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Kunduz: Kunduz city
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.7971548392469
Longitude: 68.8574981689453
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kunduz
- Town/Village
- Near Kunduz provincial capital
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Hostage taking
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On June 8, 2016, Taliban fighters stopped a bus traveling on a highway near the Kunduz provincial capital and abducted 40 passengers. The militants forcibly removed the travelers from the vehicle during this mass kidnapping incident.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 40
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