Afghanistan: Taliban Governor killed in blast at his office
According to recent reports, there was a blast in Afghanistan’s Balkh province on Thursday morning. Reportedly in the explosion of the Taliban governor of Afghanistan was killed. “Two people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh, have been killed in an explosion this morning,” the province’s police spokesman Asif Waziri told AFP.
However, the cause of the blast is yet unidentified. Muzammil was one of the top-ranking Taliban officials to be killed in such circumstances since the organization returned to power in August 2021.
He was initially appointed as the governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar where he led the fight against Islamic State jihadists, before being moved to Balkh last year.
