An unexploded ordnance blast in Khwaja Ghar district, Takhar, killed one young man and wounded a middle-aged man on 9 November 2026. They were buying and sellin
Summary
An unexploded ordnance blast in Khwaja Ghar district, Takhar, killed one young man and wounded a middle-aged man on 9 November 2026. They were buying and selling scrap metal near the Muhajirin mosque. The explosive was among the old scrap they had collected. A similar incident reportedly killed a 25-year-old in Qarabagh district, Ghazni, the day before.
Where
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Placed to district level. Sources name the district; no coordinates have been established, and the exact address is withheld.
Legal classification
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Killing of civilians in attack · primary
ICCPR Art. 6; IHL
Assigned from the reported conduct and confirmed on review.
Sources
One report only. Nothing corroborates it yet, which is why this entry is graded single-source rather than confirmed.
How this entry was made
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Afghanistan Human Rights Center, “An unexploded ordnance blast in Khwaja Ghar district, Takhar, killed one young man and wounded a middle-aged man on 9 November 2026. They were buying and sellin”, entry AHRC-2026-1109-TAK-01, grade: Single-source, 2026-11-09. Retrieved 10 November 2026.