What the records say
- When
- 11 Mar 2012
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 16
- Coordinates
- 31.53° N, 65.50° E
- Description
- 2012 murder of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a US Army sergeant
Kandahar massacre
2012 murders by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan
The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre, was a mass murder that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Nine of his victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family. Some of the corpses were partially burned.
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