Afghan mayor killed in suicide blast

By IANS,

Kabul : The mayor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar city was killed Wednesday in a suicide attack when he was attending a meeting, Xinhua reported.


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The blast ripped through the city’s municipal department, killing Ghulam Haider Hamidi, provincial official Zalmai Ayubi told Xinhua.

The government blamed the Taliban for the assassination. Kandahar, once a Taliban stronghold, lies about 450 km south of Kabul.

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