 A suspected suicide bomber died today in the western Afghan city of Herat while attempting to assassinate a local police chief, police said. The unidentified man died in an explosion as he tried to approach the car of Khawja Isa, police chief of the district of Enjil, which is in Herat province near the border with Iran. ''His body is beyond recognition and he was a suicide bomber wanting to kill Isa,'' Nisar Ahmad Paikar, a police official for Herat city told Reuters, adding that Isa was unhurt. The blast happened in the centre of Herat, but did not cause any other casualties or damage, Paikar said. He said an investigation was under way to determine the identity of the attacker. |