Demining Personnel Mass Abduction - Paktia (2015)
Incident- Date
- Apr 19, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Paktia: Zurmat
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.4359885654695
Longitude: 69.0310478013903
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Zurmat
- Town/Village
- Zurmat District, Paktia Province
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Clash
- Detention
- Hostage taking
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: April 19, 2015
Location: Zurmat District, Paktia Province
Victims: Nineteen demining employees of Sterling Global
Perpetrators: Unknown
Incident Type: Mass kidnapping
Narrative:
On April 19, 2015, nineteen demining employees working for Sterling Global were kidnapped in Zurmat District of Paktia Province. The abduction occurred shortly after the workers had begun their demining operations. The victims were taken to an unknown location. The perpetrators of the kidnapping remain unidentified.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 19
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