The police chief of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province has died in a suicide attack on his headquarters.
Khan Mohammad Mujahid was killed and two other police officers were injured in the blast, officials say.
A suicide bomber managed to penetrate the defences of the police headquarters by wearing a police uniform, the Afghan interior ministry said.
Mr Khan has survived previous attempts on his life. The police HQ has also been targeted in the past.
“The suicide attacker had strapped explosives to his body,” deputy chief Shir Shah told the AFP news agency.
“He detonated himself at the gate of Kandahar police headquarters. Police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid has been martyred, [and] two policemen have been injured.”
Kandahar is seen as the spiritual homeland of the Taliban, and has experienced some of the worst of the violence in Afghanistan in recent years.
Attacks on Afghan police and troops have increased recently as the Taliban tries to undermine efforts to prepare local forces to assume full security control once the Nato security force leaves.
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