[Tolo News] Deputy Governor of Kandahar was killed in a suicide kaboom early Saturday in Deh Khwaja area of Kandahar city, local officials said.The incident happened at 8:45am local time in Deh Khawja area of Kandahar city when a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence targeted the car carrying Abdul Latif, deputy governor of Kandahar, said Khan Mohammad Mujahid, the police of Kandahar.
"Abdul Latif was killed in the attack and three bodyguards were maimed," he added.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Kandahar is one of the volatile provinces of Afghanistan in the south where insurgency has been at its highest, amid huge military operations conducted by Afghan and foreign forces to clear its insecure districts of Death Eaters.