Civilian Killed by Roadside Bomb Near Police Headquarters - Kandahār 2019

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۸ چنگاښ ۱۰
Year of Incident
2019
Province of incident
Kandahar: Kandahar City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 31.6311552979186

Longitude: 65.7419292332302

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kandahar
Town Village
Kandahar City, Kandahār Province
Types of Incident
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Roadside bomb
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Unknown: Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
  • Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

A roadside bomb detonated near police headquarters at around 11 a.m. in Kandahar City, killing one civilian. The explosive device was intended to target officials but instead resulted in the death of a civilian who was in the vicinity of the blast.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
1