An American drone strike targeted a gathering of tribal elders, killing four people
Incident- Date
- Apr 6, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Logar: Pul-i-Alam
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.0010117591936
Longitude: 69.016971416481
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Pul-i-Alam
- Town/Village
- Padkhab-e-Shana
- Types of incident
- Air Strikes
- Conflict parties
- Coalition forces
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Summary of incident
The head of the provincial council claimed that an American drone strike targeted a gathering of tribal elders, killing four tribal elders. Local officials confirmed the airstrike was carried out by an American drone and four people were killed. The government was still collecting information about the identity of those killed.
- Source_1
Afghan War Casualty Report: April 5-11, Fahim Abed, New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report.html.
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