Government Employee Shot While Returning Home - Paktia (2019)

Incident
Date
Aug 27, 2019
Year of incident
2019
Province of incident
Paktia: Ahmadabad
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.5681636258744

Longitude: 61.3204339621091

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Ahmadabad
Town/Village
Ahmadabad, Paktia Province
Types of incident
  • Assassination
  • Shooting
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict parties
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
Alleged types of crimes
  • Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
  • Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Other Crimes : Killing
  • Other Crimes : Murder
  • Other Crimes : Summary execution
Regime in place
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

A government employee in Ahmad Aba District was shot and killed by Taliban forces on his way home from work. The incident represents a targeted killing of a civilian government worker as he commuted from his workplace.

Source_1

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
1