A Taliban IED Hit a Civilian Minibus in Ghazni. (2019)
Document- Date
- AP ۱۳۹۸ لیندۍ ۲۲
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Jeghatoo (Waeez Shahid)
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.7750907574508
Longitude: 68.364741534513
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Jaghatu
- Town Village
- Dara-e-Qiyaq
- Types of Incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On December 13, 2019, a pressure-plate IED placed in a passenger car by the Taliban detonated in the Qiyagh Valley of Jaghatu district, Ghazni province. The explosion impacted a civilian minibus traveling on the road from Daikundi to Ghazni city. Tragically, ten civilians lost their lives (including five men, three women, one girl, and one boy), and nine others sustained injuries (including six men, two boys, and one girl).
- Sources
AHRDO Archive
[UNAEMA Casualty Report](https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/afghanistan_protection_of_civilians_annual_report_2019.pdf]
[Etilaatroz](https://www.etilaatroz.com/89264/a-roadside-bomb-blast-killed-10-civilians-in-ghazni/]
- Source_2
[Hasht-e-Subh](https://8am.media/fa/a-landmine-blast-kills-a-civilian-in-ghazni-road/]
[DW Farsi](https://www.dw.com/fa-af/%DB%B1%DB%B0-%D8%BA%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D9%86%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF/a-51655305]
- No of victims involved
- 10