Civilian Casualties in Roadside Bombing - Ghazni 2019

Document
Date
۲۷ بهمن ۱۳۹۷
Year of Incident
2019
Province of incident
Ghazni: Ghazni City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 33.553649501162

Longitude: 68.4306428259085

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Ghazni City
Town Village
Ghazni City, Ghazni Province
Types of Incident
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Roadside bomb
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Unknown: Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
  • Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in a roadside explosion in Ghazni City. The improvised explosive device was planted by insurgent forces targeting Afghan security forces but resulted in civilian casualties. The bomb detonated as civilians were in the vicinity of the targeted area.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
4