Tue 15 December 2020:
Kabul Deputy Governor Mahboobullah Mohebi has been killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s capital city, security officials were reported as saying.
They said a sticky bomb was attached to Mohebi’s car by unidentified assailants.
Deputy Governor Mahboobullah Mohebi was travelling with his security guards when the blast occurred on Tuesday.
Afghanistan’s TOLO news, quoting Kabul police, reported on Twitter that “Mohibullah Mohammadi, the deputy governor of Kabul, and his secretary were killed in a blast from an IED placed on their vehicle”.
Update: Mohibullah Mohammadi, dep. gov. of Kabul, and his secretary were killed in a blast from an IED placed on their vehicle in Macroryan 4 in Kabul’s PD9 today, #Kabul police confirmed. “Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the blast,” said police. pic.twitter.com/P3KdFY8cT9
— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) December 15, 2020
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast in which two of Mohebi’s guards were also injured.
Last week, an Afghan government prosecutor was shot dead in eastern Kabul on his way to work.
In the other attack in Kabul on Tuesday, gunmen shot and killed a police officer and wounded another policeman, said Ferdaws Faramarz, spokesman for Kabul’s police chief.
Photo TOLO NEWS
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