Friendly fire incident at Sangin 2006
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 29 March 2006 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2006 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Post-1945 (1946 onwards) | derived from year |
| Location | Afghanistan | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Asia | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | United States | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 31.5892, 64.3633 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Friendly fire incident at Sangin was a military incident that took place on March 29, 2006. Afghan insurgents mounted an assault on a forward operating base in Helmand province near the town of Lashkar Gah, which had been opened only six weeks earlier and was staffed by 100 ANA soldiers and their
American trainers, using small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, and mortars.
While eight Afghan soldiers were killed in the initial assault, an American soldier was killed and another wounded, a Canadian soldier was killed and three more wounded, and another Afghan soldier was wounded following a friendly fire incident in which an American soldier manning a Humvee-mounted 7.62mm gun fired on their positions.
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