Zangabad
| Zangabad | |||
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 28 ′ N , 65 ° 22 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Afghanistan | ||
| Kandahar | |||
| District | Panjwai | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AF-KAN | ||
Zangabad (also: Zangābād , Zangiabad , Zangīābād ) is an Afghan village in the Panjwai district in Kandahar Province .
location
Zangabad is 915 meters above sea level. An earthquake with a strength of four to five according to Richter occurs on average every 50 years . Times of extreme drought are very common.
Infrastructure
In the immediate vicinity of Zangabad there is a Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the armed forces of the United States (as of March 2012).
history
According to newspaper reports, on March 11, 2012 a sergeant from the FOB carried out a massacre in Zangabad . He is said to have killed 16 civilians, including nine children and three women.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Matthias Rüb: Warning before the race to the exit. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 13, 2012, accessed March 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Zangābād (populated place). (No longer available online.) In: Chinci - World Atlas. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 14, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
