An Afghan provincial governor, who was also a former cabinet minister, was among four people killed in an apparent Taliban suicide bomb attack near Kabul today.
Logar Province Governor Abdullah Wardak died on a dirt road outside his home in Paghman, 20km west of the capital.
Details of the attack are still unclear.
Mr Wardak served as a commander for one of the armed factions that helped US-led troops overthrow the hardline Islamist Taliban government in late 2001.
He was later a minister in President Hamid Karzai's government before he became governor for Logar, where the Taliban and other militants are active.
He is the second provincial governor to be assassinated by suicide bombers in recent years.
