3 top Afghan provincial officials killed in shooting
Xinhua
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Three top Afghan provincial security officials and a local journalist were killed in a shooting, after an Afghan-NATO security meeting attended by top US-NATO commander in Afghanistan, in southern province of Kandahar on Thursday, a local source said.

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A police car is seen after an attack carried out with a bomb-laden vehicle in Kandvali district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. (File photo: CGTN)

Gen. Abdul Raziq, police chief of Kandahar, Gen. Momin, head of intelligence department, were killed on the spot and provincial Governor Zulmay Weesa died of serious wounds in a hospital, the source, on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua.

Gen. Raziq was a key anti-Taliban figure in southern Afghanistan and he had escaped over two dozens of direct attacks and suicide bomb blasts in the past, he said.

The shooter who served as a governor's bodyguard was also killed in the incident. 

The source added that Gen. Austin Scott Miller, top US-NATO commander in Afghanistan, escaped the attack but two US soldiers and several other people were injured in the attack claimed by the Taliban insurgent group.

Further details about the incident are still forthcoming amid the absence of any official statement.