• Source: 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.




Events


The attack occurred at approximately 5:15 (UTC) A.M., 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. Two days prior, a rocket was fired at the base from the nearby village of Qalandar Khil. 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.




Fatalities


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




See also


2007 Bagram Airfield bombing
2015 Bagram Airfield bombing
2016 Bagram Airfield bombing




References

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• Medal of Heroism (Czech Republic)
• Aafia Siddiqui
• List of private contractor deaths in Afghanistan
• List of NATO installations in Afghanistan
• List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan