{ "name": "ISAF Completes Assessment of Civilian Casualty Incident in Southwest", "eventrefnumber": "2011-02-S-053", "text": "ISAF Completes Assessment of Civilian Casualty Incident in Southwest\nISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
2011-02-S-053
For Immediate Release                      

KABUL, Afghanistan (Feb. 8) – A joint International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Army team has completed its assessment of an incident in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, concluding ISAF accidentally killed two civilians and injured one during a firefight with insurgents.

During an ambush, a vehicle approached the ISAF convoy at a high rate of speed. After determining the vehicle was a potential threat and wouldn’t stop, coalition forces reacted by using appropriate escalation of force procedures to protect the members of the convoy.", "StartDate": "2011-02-07", "eventtype": "civiliancasualty", "province": "Helmand", "citydistrict": "Nahr-e Seraj", "village": "", "targetgroup": "", "commander": "", "position": "", "minkilled": "2", "mincaptured": "0", "capturedcharacterisation": "", "killedcharacterisation": "2", "killq": "true", "captureq": "false", "killcaptureraid": "false", "airstrike": "false", "noshotsfired": "false", "dataprocessed": "true", "flagged": "false", "glossarymeta": "false", "minleaderskilled": "0", "minfacilitatorskilled": "0", "minleaderscaptured": "0", "minfacilitatorscaptured": "0","leaderq":"false"}