Media Offices Bomb Attack - Nangarhar (2015)

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Date
۲۰ خرداد ۱۳۹۴
Year of Incident
2015
Province of incident
Nangarhar: Jalalabad
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.4552967856833

Longitude: 70.4518092111804

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Jalalabad
Town Village
Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province
Types of Incident
  • Anti-Personnel Mine
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
  • Local Militia
  • Taliban
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
  • Unknown: Other inhumane acts
  • Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

On June 10, 2015, a bomb exploded at the offices of Pajhwok Afghan News in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province. Pajhwok, Afghanistan's largest news agency, reported that their journalists escaped injury in the attack. However, four guests at the nearby Voice of America office were wounded, and the explosion damaged office equipment at the Pajhwok facility.

Sources

Human Rights Watch, Dispatches: New Violence Against Afghanistan Media, 11 June 2015

Source_2

Tolo News

No of victims involved
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