JALALABAD: A district governor was killed along with his bodyguard when a bomb hidden in his vehicle exploded in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Saturday, provincial authorities said.
“Today 9:00am, a mine attached to the vehicle of Nazyan district governor, Noor Agha Kamran, was detonated in the city of Jalalabad,” Nangarhar police spokesman, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told a foreign news agency.
“Unfortunately, district governor, Noor Agha Kamran was martyred along with his one bodyguard, and several passersby were wounded in the attack,” he added.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
