Taliban Assassinate Deputy District Governor in Gosfandi, Sar-e Pul (2019)
Document- Date
- ۱۳ بهمن ۱۳۹۷
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Sare Pol: Gosfandi
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.2215966088889
Longitude: 65.9277670687403
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Gosfandi
- Town Village
- Gosfandi district, Sare Pol 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)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On February 2, 2019, Taliban fighters shot and killed the Gosfandi deputy district governor as he was returning home from evening prayer. Pro-government militia members present in the area killed one of the attackers during the incident. This represents a targeted assassination of a local government official by the Taliban.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1
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