Prosecutor's Office Complex Attack - Balkh (2015)
Document- Date
- Apr 9, 2015
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.6940040349316
Longitude: 67.1132463131472
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Mazar-e Sharif
- Town Village
- Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province
- Types of Incident
- Assault
- Clash
- Complex attack
- Explosion
- Ground attack
- Hand grenade
- Murder
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- 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 9, 2015
Location: Prosecutor's office complex, Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province
Victims:
Fourteen civilians killed
Forty-seven civilians injured
Perpetrators: Taliban
Incident Type: Complex attack
Narrative:
On April 9, 2015, Taliban forces conducted a complex attack targeting the prosecutor's office complex in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province. The attack resulted in the deaths of fourteen civilians and injuries to forty-seven others. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack through a statement on their website.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 62