Children Killed by Taliban Rocket Attack - Paktia 2019
Incident- Date
- Jul 2, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Paktia: Chamkani
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.8028647693151
Longitude: 69.8320840894505
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Chamkani
- Town/Village
- Shahrenaw, Chamkani, Paktia Province
- Types of incident
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Rocket Attack
- Targeted Killing
- 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)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- 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 rocket fired by Taliban forces killed two children in the Shahrenaw area of Chamkani district. One additional child was wounded in the attack and was still receiving treatment in the hospital at the time of reporting. The rocket strike directly targeted or impacted a civilian area where children were present.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 3
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