Assassination of Five Female Airport Employees and Driver in Kandahar (2016)

Incident
Date
Dec 17, 2016
Year of incident
2016
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 province
Types of incident
  • Assassination
  • Shooting
  • 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)
  • Other
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
Alleged types of crimes
  • Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
  • 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 : Persecution
Regime in place
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

On December 17, 2016, unknown gunmen shot and killed five female airport employees and their driver in Kandahar province. The women had previously received death threats from individuals who disapproved of their careers. While no group immediately claimed responsibility for this attack, the Taliban had claimed similar targeted killings of working women in the past.

Source_1

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

Gandhara RFE

No of victims involved
6