(KUNA) -- At least five people, including four policemen, were killed and several others wounded Monday as a suicide bomber detonated himself amidst the funeral of a provincial governor, who was assassinated in a simlar attack on Sunday. It was the funeral of Paktia Governor Hakim Taniwal when a bomber exploded the explosives around his waist amidst the crowd gathered to bury the governor, said a police official Jan Mohammad.
The blast took place in the Tanayee district, the native town of the late governor, said the official, adding, the dead included four policemen. The governor and two of his colleagues were killed in Paktia province on Sunday in a suicide attack outside his office.
Taniwal's a real loss to Afghanistan. He's the guy who threw Zadran out of Khost. I doubt they'll get another governor as good as he was. He was killed five years, almost to the day, after Masood. |
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