The deputy governor of Helmand province and five others have been killed in a suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan.
A local hospital official confirmed that deputy governor Haji Pir Mohammad was among those killed in the blast in the town of Lashkar Gah.
Earlier, a suicide car bomb exploded near an army bus in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing a civilian and wounding four people including an army officer.
The blast targeted a bus taking Afghan National Army staff to work but it missed the vehicle.
Four others were wounded.
A Taliban spokesman said one of the militant group's suicide bombers was responsible for the blast.
The bomber was in a car, a police official said, adding he blew himself up prematurely, before reaching the target.
Buses carrying army and police personnel are a favoured Taliban target with at least 65 killed in four such previous attacks in the capital since June last year.
