Civilians Killed in Taliban Attack on Kandahar Airport - Kandahar (2015)
Incident- Dates of incident
- Dec 8, 2015 ~ Dec 9, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Kandahar City
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 31.6311552979186
Longitude: 65.7419292332302
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kandahar
- Town/Village
- Kandahar Airport, Kandahar, Kandahar Province
- Types of incident
- Complex Attack
- Ground 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
From 8 December to 9 December 2015, in an attack on the Kandahar airport in Kandahar, Kandahar Province, the Taliban intentionally targeted civilian areas, killing 38 civilians, including four children, and injuring a further 19 civilians.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 57
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