{"id":18241,"date":"2026-08-14T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:40:52","slug":"afghanistan-bomb-attack-kills-mayor-hospital-municipality-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18241","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan bomb attack kills mayor, hospital, municipality sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bomb attack has killed the mayor of an Afghan provincial capital, hospital and municipality sources told AFP, weeks after another official was shot dead in the same region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Habib-ur-Rahman Mansour, mayor of Faizabad, was killed after his vehicle was targeted by a bomb on Wednesday (local time), a nurse at the Badakhshan provincial hospital told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An employee at the city’s municipality, who also requested anonymity for security reasons, said the mayor “was killed by a bomb planted” near their workplace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The blast was claimed by the National Resistance Front, an armed opposition group which wrote on X that it targeted the mayor’s vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a report in May, the United Nations said armed opposition groups “posed no significant challenge” to the Taliban government’s control of the country in the three months prior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Faizabad bombing comes less than three weeks after the head of the information and culture department in Badakhshan, Zabihullah Amiri, was shot dead while en route to the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The branch of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islamic State-Khorasan, said it had carried out that attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Remote Badakhshan has become an important mining hub under the Taliban authorities, which have expanded the sector since returning to power five years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There were clashes in the province in May when security forces sought to destroy opium poppy fields, with two people, including a teenager, killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taliban officials have vowed to restore security to Afghanistan, but there have been sporadic attacks since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The regional IS branch has claimed some of them, including an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in central Kabul that killed at least seven people in January.<\/p>\n

Source: AFP & RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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