2014 Bagram Airfield bombing

On 8 July 2014, a Taliban suicide bomber riding a bicycle attacked a joint Afghan-ISAF reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of Qalandar Khel Village in front of the Korean Clinic.[1]

2014 Bagram suicide bombing
Part of War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Location of Parwan Province in Afghanistan
LocationBagram, Parwan Province, Afghanistan
DateJuly 8, 2014 (2014-07-08)
5:15 (UTC)
TargetAfghan-ISAF reconnaissance patrol
Attack type
Suicide bombing
WeaponsExplosives
DeathsTotal: 17+
  • 5 Czech soldiers
  • 2 Afghan policemen
  • 10 Afghan civilians
Perpetrators Taliban

Events

The attack occurred at approximately 5:15 (UTC) A.M.,[2] as the Czech soldiers along with Afghan police, were assessing the security situation in the village in the vicinity of Bagram Airfield. The bomber was in a crowd of Afghans talking to the soldiers who were investigating rocket attacks against Bagram airbase.[3] Two days prior, a rocket was fired at the base from the nearby village of Qalandar Khil.[1][4] A total of 17+ people died on site; including 10 Afghan civilians, 2 Afghan police officers, and 4 Czech soldiers. A fifth Czech soldier died of wounds six days later in a Prague military hospital.[5]

Fatalities

Five Czech ISAF soldiers were killed,[6] of the Czech Afghanistan Contingent.

Date Name Rank Age Unit Branch State City Cause Place of Death Died In
7-14-2014 Jaroslav, Lieskovan Rotmistr (Staff Sergeant) 39 2nd Czech Force Protection Company Czech Army Pardubice Chrudim Hostile - hostile fire Prague Czech Republic
7-08-2014 Beneš, David Rotmistr (Staff Sergeant) 28 2nd Czech Force Protection Company Czech Army Pardubice Chrudim Hostile - hostile fire Bagram Air Force Base Afghanistan
7-08-2014 Šenkýr, Jan Desátník (Corporal) 39 43rd airborne battalion Czech Army Ústí nad Labem Žatec Hostile - hostile fire Bagram Air Force Base Afghanistan
7-08-2014 Ligac, Libor Desátník (Corporal) 32 2nd Czech Force Protection Company Czech Army Pardubice Chrudim Hostile - hostile fire Bagram Air Force Base Afghanistan
7-08-2014 Klusák, Ivo Cetar (Sergeant) 33 2nd Czech Force Protection Company Czech Army Pardubice Chrudim Hostile - hostile fire Bagram Air Force Base Afghanistan
gollark: You're not really paying them for either as much as just the fact that they can do/make the thing you want and you are, presumably, willing to pay the price they ask for. Going around trying to judge someone else's "worth" in some way is problematic.
gollark: The learning time is amortized over all the other programming stuff they do, and it's not like they would somehow unlearn everything if you didn't pay more. Still, it is somewhat complicated and, er, possibly impossible, although if people want to do it (they regularly do complex things anyway if they're interesting) then why not.
gollark: Honestly it's not *that* practical a lot of the time because doing complex things is very hard and slow.
gollark: Oh, and reconnaissance, except not really because they have no sensors.
gollark: Mostly just fly around delivering things.

See also

References
  1. "4th Czech Force Protection Company sponsors Czech Fallen Heroes' Day". www.army.mil. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  2. "Czech NATO soldier seriously injured in Afghanistan dies". Aktuálně.cz - Víte, co se právě děje (in Czech). 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  3. AFP (2014-07-09). "Four Czech soldiers among 16 killed in Afghan suicide attack". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  4. "Radio Prague - Four Czech soldiers killed in Afghan suicide bomb attack". Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  5. "Fifth Czech Dies From Afghan Blast". RFE/RL. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  6. "iCasualties | Operation Iraqi Freedom | Iraq | Fatalities By Nationality". icasualties.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-28. Retrieved 2017-06-19.

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