Governor's Bodyguards Accidentally Kill Two Civilians with RPG in Herat (2018)
Document- Date
- ۱۹ آبان ۱۳۹۷
- Year of Incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Herat: Kohsan
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 34.6677817878843
Longitude: 61.2031727675001
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Kohsan
- Town Village
- Kohsan district, Herat province
- Types of Incident
- Explosion
- Heavy Weapon attack
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Unknown: Friendly-fire
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On November 10, 2018, an explosion inside the district governor's office in Kohsan district killed five security forces and two civilians, including the district governor himself. The blast occurred when the governor's bodyguards mistakenly fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) inside the building. This incident represents an accidental discharge of heavy weapons that caused multiple casualties including the death of the official the bodyguards were meant to protect.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
[NYT[(https://archive.ph/MCt46)
- No of victims involved
- 7
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