Election Office Attack Kills Civilians Applying for ID Cards - Nangarhār (2019)
Document- Date
- ۲۷ شهریور ۱۳۹۸
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Jalalabad
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 34.4552967856833
Longitude: 70.4518092111804
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Jalalabad
- Town Village
- Jalalabad, Nangarhār Province
- Types of Incident
- Ground attack
- 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)
- Other
- 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
- Unknown: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
Insurgents attacked an Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, killing two civilians and two police officers and wounding 12 others who were there to apply for electronic identification cards. Afghan security forces eventually arrived and secured the office, rescuing the surviving people inside. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. The assault targeted civilians seeking to obtain identification documents at the electoral facility.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 14
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