The district governor of Khan Shin, Massoud Balouch, was killed in a blast in southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Wednesday, a local official said.
The incident took place in Khan Shin district in the early afternoon when the truck Mr Balouch was travelling in struck a roadside kaboom, provincial front man Dawood Ahmadi said.
Two others, including an Afghan policeman, also died. Three others, including another policeman, were maimed.
Mr Balouch was killed while campaigning against drugs in Khan Shin, Mr Ahmadi said.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.