DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF AFGHANISTAN'S SOUTHERN KANDAHAR PROVINCE KILLED BY SUICIDE BOMBER

DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF AFGHANISTAN'S SOUTHERN KANDAHAR PROVINCE KILLED BY SUICIDE BOMBER-NATO SOURCE

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"Deputy provincial governor Abdul Latif Ashna was on way to office when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle leaving him dead," Xinhua news agency quoted an official at the press department of provincial administration as saying on Saturday.

Meanwhile, a doctor in Kandahar Mirwais hospital in the provincial capital Kandahar city said that five other people have been injured during the blast, and were taken to hospital for medical treatment.

In November, the deputy director for education in Kandahar province in Afghanistan was also killed in a terrorist attack.

The security situation remains fragile throughout the war-ravaged country despite the presence of 150,000 US-led foreign forces.

Afghan insurgency is mainly focused in Kandahar, where government officials have been specifically targeted by militants throughout this year.

On September 1, Mohammad Hassan Timori, the provincial Director of Haj and Religious Affairs, was killed when his vehicle was hit in a bomb attack in the southern city of Kandahar.