Government Employee Shot While Returning Home - Paktia (2019)

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۸ وږی ۵
Year of Incident
2019
Province of incident
Paktia: Ahmadabad
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5681636258744

Longitude: 61.3204339621091

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Ahmadabad
Town Village
Ahmadabad, Paktia Province
Types of Incident
  • Assassination
  • Shooting
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Attacking civilians
  • Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
  • Unknown: Killing
  • Unknown: Murder
  • Unknown: Summary execution
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

A government employee in Ahmad Aba District was shot and killed by Taliban forces on his way home from work. The incident represents a targeted killing of a civilian government worker as he commuted from his workplace.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
1