Children Unexploded Ordnance Casualties - Badakhshan (2015)
Document- Date
- AP ۱۳۹۴ چنگاښ ۲۷
- Year of Incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Badakhshan: Wurduj
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.7718236923911
Longitude: 71.1845397949218
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Wurduj
- Town Village
- Wurduj District, Badakhshan Province,
- Types of Incident
- Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)
- Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Local Militia
- Other
- Taliban
- Unknown
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Use of mines against civilians
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On July 18, 2015, three boys discovered an unexploded mortar round in a field in Wurduj District of Badakhshan Province. The ordnance subsequently detonated, killing one boy and injuring the other two. According to local community sources, the mortar round was likely a remnant from ground engagement between Taliban forces and the Afghan National Army that had occurred the previous day.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 3
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