June 2020 Afghanistan attacks

In June 2020, insurgents and the Taliban carried out attacks throughout Afghanistan in a continuation of attacks carried out in May.[1]

June 2020 Afghanistan attacks
Part of the War in Afghanistan
Badakhshan
Helmand
Kabul
June 2020 Afghanistan attacks (Afghanistan)
LocationBadakhshan Province
Kabul Province
Helmand Province
Date6 June - 29 June 2020
Deaths15 in Badakhshan Province
7 in Kabul Province
23+ in Helmand Province
Injured8 in Kabul Province

Attacks

On June 5, 2020, 10 policemen were killed in attacks in Zabul province.[1] The next day on June 6, a roadside bomb killed 11 members of the Afghan security forces when their vehicle hit a bomb. The Afghan soldiers were responding to attacks on checkpoints in Khash District, Badakhshan Province, when their vehicle hit the bomb.[1] According to the spokesman for Badakhshan’s provincial police chief Sanaullah Rohani, a local commander and four militants were among those killed in the attack. In a separate incident on the same day, three police officers were killed in a shootout in Guldara District, Kabul Province.[1]

On 12 June 2020, a Sunni mosque in Kabul was bombed, killing four people and injuring another eight.[2] Over a week later on June 29, at least 23 people were killed in rocket attacks on a cattle market in Sangin District, Helmand Province. Both the government and the Taliban blamed each other for the attack.[3]

References
  1. "Separate attacks kill 14 Afghan forces in Kabul, northeast". AP NEWS. 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  2. News, A. B. C. "Official: Bomb explodes in Kabul mosque, at least 4 killed". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  3. "Blast kills at least 23 at cattle market in southern Afghanistan". Reuters. 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
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