Humanitarian Organization Employees Kidnapped in Faryab Province (2015)
Incident- Date
- Feb 7, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Faryab: Pashtun Kot
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 35.8322207280925
Longitude: 64.7716331534889
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Pashtun Kot
- Town/Village
- Kata Kum area, eastern checkpoint of Miamana-Mazar-e-Sharif Highway
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Hostage taking
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Attacking humanitarian personnel and object
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: February 7, 2015
Location:
Initial kidnapping: Kata Kum area, eastern checkpoint of Miamana-Mazar-e-Sharif Highway
Subsequent locations: Shor Qul village; Ghartapa area, Khwaja Mosa, Pashtun Kot District, Faryab Province
Victims:
Four employees of Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) (identities not provided)
Perpetrators: Anti-government groups (AGs) Incident Type: Kidnapping
Claimed Responsibility: None reported
Narrative: On February 7, 2015, four employees of the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) were kidnapped by anti-government groups (AGs) in the Kata Kum area, near the eastern checkpoint of the Miamana-Mazar-e-Sharif Highway in Faryab Province, Afghanistan. The kidnapped individuals were initially taken to Shor Qul village and subsequently moved to the Ghartapa area in Khwaja Mosa, Pashtun Kot District of Faryab Province. As of the time of the initial report, no information about their condition was available.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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