Assassination of Five Female Airport Employees and Driver in Kandahar (2016)

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Date
۲۷ آذر ۱۳۹۵
Year of Incident
2016
Province of incident
Kandahar: Kandahar City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 31.6311552979186

Longitude: 65.7419292332302

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kandahar
Town Village
Kandahar 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)
  • Other
  • 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: Killing
  • Unknown: Persecution
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

On December 17, 2016, unknown gunmen shot and killed five female airport employees and their driver in Kandahar province. The women had previously received death threats from individuals who disapproved of their careers. While no group immediately claimed responsibility for this attack, the Taliban had claimed similar targeted killings of working women in the past.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

Gandhara RFE

No of victims involved
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