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A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his workplace, police officers have informed CNN.
Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh province, died together with two others within the blast on Thursday, stated the provincial police pressure’s spokesman Asif Waziri.
The reason for the explosion stays unclear, however Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid stated the boys had been killed “by the enemies of Islam.”
Nonetheless, he didn’t determine the suspects and no group has claimed accountability for the assault.
“An investigation into the incident is underway,” Mujahid stated.
The governor is among the most senior officers to have been killed for the reason that radical Islamist group retook management of the nation in August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces.
Since then, the Islamic State militant group and its associates have claimed a collection of lethal assaults in Afghanistan each on civilians and members of the Taliban.
These have included an assault at a Sikh temple that killed at the very least two individuals, a string of incidents within the japanese Afghan metropolis of Jalalabad, and a suicide bomb blast at Kabul airport.
