A civilian truck was blown up by a roadside bomb killing a mother and her two children

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۹ غبرگولی ۵
Year of Incident
2020
Province of incident
Oruzgan: Tarin Kowt
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 32.6669194646242

Longitude: 65.9068082869349

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Tarin Kowt
Town Village
Tanawcha
Types of Incident
  • Roadside bomb
Conflict Parties
  • Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • Unknown: Killing
Summary

A civilian truck was blown up by a roadside bomb in the Tanawcha area of Tarin Kot, the provincial capital, killing a mother and her two children, while wounding three other civilians. Police officers in a nearby outpost rushed to help, and one was killed in a subsequent roadside bomb explosion.

Sources

Afghan War Casualty Report: May 2020, New York Times, 28 May 2020, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report-may-2020.html