Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha begins, bomb kills Afghan governor

A bomb has killed an Afghan provincial governor. The explosion happened as he made a speech at a mosque after Eid al-Adha prayers in the Logar province, close to the capital, Kabul, officials said.


"This morning, governor Arsallah Jamal was delivering a speech after Eid prayers when he was killed by a bomb planted in the microphone," Logar provincial governor spokesman Din Mohammad Darwish told the news agency AFP.


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