The Killing of 13 Passengers in Sayed Abad, Maidan Wardak (2015)
Document- Date
- ۲۴ مارس ۲۰۱۵
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Wardak: Saydabad
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 34.1189827692461
Longitude: 68.804605173773
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Saydabad
- Town Village
- Haft-Asiyab, Sayedabad
- Types of Incident
- Abduction
- Execution
- Small arms Fires
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Civil Order Forces (ANCOF)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Afghan Special Forces (ASF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Office of National Security Council (ONSC)
- Taliban
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Taking hostages
- War crime: Torture
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Crime against humanity: Torture
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On March 24, 2015, unidentified gunmen intercepted a bus traveling from Kabul to Kandahar in the Haft-Asiyab area of Sayed Abad District, Maidan Wardak Province. After conducting searches and interrogations, the assailants executed 13 passengers, including one woman, and injured two others. The motive and the identity of the perpetrators remain unknown.
- Sources
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 13