The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack, officials have said. A suicide bomber attacked Abdul Latif Ashna's convoy as he was being driven to work in Kandahar city.
His spokesman said a suicide bomber on a motorcycle slammed into his car. Three of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack, the spokesman added.
Thousands of US-led forces are fighting insurgents in the province.
US ambassador Karl Eikenberry, who was visiting Kandahar on Saturday, condemned the attack but said it would not blunt attempts to defeat the insurgency.
"The loss of a great deputy governor like this is a setback. What we've seen is consistently Afghan government leaders emerge and the people continue to rally in an effort to establish security in this province," he told journalists.
The city is the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
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