Coal Heater Landmine Explosion, Kandahar (2025)
Document- Date
- ۳ آذر ۱۴۰۴
- Year of Incident
- 2025
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Maywand
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 31.6619926489105
Longitude: 64.9910104012577
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Maywand
- Town Village
- Badzi village, Qala-e Shah Mir area, Maywand district, Kandahar Province
- Types of Incident
- Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)
- Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Conflict Parties
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
- Perpetrators
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)
- Summary
On November 24, 2025, a landmine concealed inside a coal heater detonated in a family home in Badzi village, Qala-e Shah Mir area of Maywand district, Kandahar Province. According to local Taliban authorities in Kandahar, the explosion resulted in two fatalities and seven injuries. The victims included women and children from the affected household. The explosive device had been placed inside the family's coal heater, a common household heating appliance. The circumstances surrounding how the mine came to be positioned inside the heater, as well as the identity of those responsible and their motive, remain unknown. No further information regarding the incident has been made available.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 9