Four Young Children Killed in Mortar Strike on House - Laghman (2020)

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۹ غبرگولی ۳
Year of Incident
2020
Province of incident
Laghman: Alishing
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.7944618011332

Longitude: 70.1106166127715

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Alishing
Town Village
Gerdi Selab area, Alishing District, Laghman Province
Types of Incident
  • Heavy Weapon attack
  • Mortar shell
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Other
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

On 23 May 2020, a mortar shell struck a house in the Gerdi Selab area of Alishing District, Laghman Province, killing four children, all under the age of 6, and wounding seven civilians, including four women. It remained unclear who fired the mortar.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
11