IED Explosion Killing Laghman Appeal Court Judge and Injuring His Daughters in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar (2015)
Document- Date
- AP ۱۳۹۳ مرغومی ۱۷
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Jalalabad
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 34.4552967856833
Longitude: 70.4518092111804
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Jalalabad
- Town Village
- Near Eidgah Mosque, Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province
- Types of Incident
- Anti-Personnel Mine
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Murder
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Taliban Militant
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Destruction and appropriation of property
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
- Summary
Date: January 7, 2015 Location: Near Eidgah Mosque, Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan Victims:
One judge from the Appeal Court of Laghman Province killed (identity not provided) Two daughters of the judge injured (identities not provided)
Perpetrators: Taliban Incident Type: Targeted assassination using a magnetic Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Claimed Responsibility: Taliban Narrative: On January 7, 2015, a magnetic Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated on a private Corolla car near the Eidgah Mosque in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The explosion resulted in the death of a judge from the Appeal Court of Laghman Province and injured two of his daughters who were with him at the time. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. In their statement, they acknowledged killing the judge identified the two injured individuals as the judge's bodyguards.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
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