Kabul, October 22: A district governor has been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan amid the rising insecurity in the war-ravaged country.
Khorshid, the governor of Dur Baba district in southeast of Nangarhar province, was driving to work when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle on Friday.
“The district governor has been martyred. Three other people, his driver and guards have been injured,” AFP quoted police spokesman Abdul Ghafour as saying.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. However, according to the police spokesman, the pro-Taliban militants are suspected of carrying out the assault.
Khorshid is the second district governor to be killed in war-torn Afghanistan in the past month.
Earlier, a powerful bomb explosion killed the governor of the Kunduz province along with many other innocent civilians in a mosque in the Takhar province in northern Afghanistan.
Violence has recently spread from Afghanistan’s south to other areas including, northern and western areas despite the presence of some 150,000 foreign troops in the country.
Furthermore, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, causing Afghans to become increasingly outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.
The situation is adding fuel to the surging anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the death toll of US-led soldiers in Afghanistan has undermined the support of public opinion in the United States and other Western countries for the continuation of war in Afghanistan.
—Agencies