KABUL: District governor along with his bodyguards and some civilians have been killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz, government officials said.
A suicide attack in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz killed a district governor, his bodyguards and civilians at a mosque on Friday, government officials told Reuters.
“Officials… were attending a prayer in a mosque when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives,” said Enayatullah Khaliq, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
The group that included the governor of the Archi district were attending a ceremony for a tribal elder who had died the day before, the officials said.
More reports are due to come.
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