At least three bodyguards were reportedly injured in a suicide attack on the governor’s office in Afghanistan’s Baloch-dominated Nimroz province on Sunday.
According to Abdul Matin Qane, the spokesman for the Taliban government’s interior ministry, the suicide bomber who intended to detonate his explosives inside the Nimroz governor’s office was killed before reaching the target. He added three Taliban security personnel were wounded in the blast.
Nimroz Governor Mohammad Qasim Khalid confirmed the assassination attempt in a video message to Afghanistan-based Tolo News.
No group has claimed responsibility for the incident yet. Notably, Daud Muzammil, the former Taliban governor in Balkh province and one of the Taliban’s most powerful figure in the government, was killed in his office last year in a similar suicide attack.