Suicide bombing kills Afghan provincial governor

  • 12/15/2022
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KABUL, Sept 10, SPA -- A suicide bombing killed thegovernor of Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province outsidehis home on Sunday, police said. Two others were alsokilled, the Associated Press reported. Provincial police chief Abdul Annan Raufi said threeothers were wounded in the attack outside Gov. Abdul Hakim Taniwal's house in the provincial capital of Gardez. The attacker, with explosives attached to his body, rantowards the governor's car and detonated the bomb as he was leaving the house, Raufi said. The other fatalities were a bodyguard and a Taniwal'ssecretary who were riding in the car, said InteriorMinistry spokesman Yousef Stanezai. Three police on duty at the house were wounded, he said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/388331

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