IED Target of Funeral Travelers - Ghazni (2015)
Document- Date
- Apr 10, 2025
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Ghazni: Khugiani
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.5548283957348
Longitude: 68.297987148583
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Khugiani
- Town Village
- Khugiani (Wale Mohammad-e-Shahid) District, Ghazni Province
- Types of Incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- 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)
- Local Militia
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militant
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
Date: April 10, 2015
Location: Khugiani (Wale Mohammad-e-Shahid) District, Ghazni Province
Victims: Twelve civilians killed (eight men and four women)
Perpetrators: Unknown
Incident Type: Pressure plate-IED explosion
Claimed Responsibility: Not specified
Narrative:
On April 10, 2015, a pressure plate Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated in Khugiani (Wale Mohammad-e-Shahid) District of Ghazni Province. The explosion killed twelve civilians, consisting of eight men and four women, who were traveling to attend a funeral. The perpetrators of the attack remain unknown.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 12