Pressure-Plate IED Kills Twelve People Returning in Paktika (2017)
Document- Date
- ۲۸ بهمن ۱۳۹۵
- Year of Incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Paktika: Urgun
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 32.8636455789413
Longitude: 69.1258900815326
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Urgun
- Town Village
- Urgun district, Paktika province
- Types of Incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Roadside bomb
- 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)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Killing
- Summary
On February 16, 2017, a pressure-plate improvised explosive device (PPIED) detonated against a pickup truck in Urgun district, killing eight boys and four men, and injuring three boys and one man. The victims were being transported home from a madrassa (religious school) when their vehicle triggered the explosive device. No group claimed responsibility for planting the indiscriminate weapon.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 16
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