School Hit by Mortar During Fighting - Ghazni 2019
Document- Incident date
- March, 2019
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Andar
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.3183516957056
Longitude: 68.4496566388923
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Andar
- Town Village
- Andar, Ghazni Province
- Types of Incident
- Clash
- Explosion
- Ground attack
- Mortar shell
- 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 civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Destruction and appropriation of property
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
During a ground engagement between the Afghan National Army and Taliban forces, a mortar round landed on a school in Andar district, causing the deaths of four schoolboys and one teacher. Seventeen additional schoolboys and one male teacher sustained injuries in the attack. The incident occurred as the two opposing forces engaged in combat, with the educational facility struck by indirect fire.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 23
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