Namak Bazar Magnetic IED Attack - Kunduz (2015)
Document- Date
- Apr 21, 2025
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Kunduz: Kunduz city
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.7971548392469
Longitude: 68.8574981689453
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Kunduz
- Town Village
- Namak Bazar, Kunduz City, Kunduz Province
- Types of Incident
- Anti-Personnel Mine
- Assassination
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Roadside bomb
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militant
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
Date: April 20, 2015
Location: Namak Bazar, Kunduz City,Kunduz Province
Victims: Twenty-one civilians injured (including one woman, one girl, and one boy)
Perpetrators: Taliban
Incident Type: Magnetic Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack
Narrative:
On April 20, 2015, a magnetic Improvised Explosive Device (IED) targeting the Afghan National Police detonated at the Namak Bazar in Kunduz City. The explosion injured twenty-one civilians, including one woman, one girl, and one boy. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, stating they had killed one Afghan National Police officer and injured two others.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 21