The governor of Balkh province appointed by the Taliban was among the three killed in Afghanistan Blast

"When the governor was coming to his office, the man blew himself up in the office. The governor and a local man were martyred," said a source, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, governor of Balkh, who was killed in an explosion this morning," a city police spokesman said. said, Asif Waziri, was quoted by the agency .

The explosion rocked Afghanistan around 9:30 a.m. Thursday when the governor arrived at his office.

Mohammad Dawood Muzammil is one of the most senior officials since Kabul fell to the Taliban following the US withdrawal. He was appointed governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar and led the fight against the Islamic State [IS] throughout the province of Afghanistan. , Explosion near the State Department kills 5,, Last month, an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital killed at least five people and injured several others. In a statement, a spokesman for the Taliban police noted that this was the second deadly explosion to occur in Kabul so far in 2023 since the Taliban took over.

There was no immediate responsibility for the attack, but the regional branch of the Islamic State group - known as Islamic State in Khorasan province [IS-K] was suspected of being behind the blast attack. .

ISIS has stepped up attacks against members of the Taliban, including patrols and the country's Shia minority, with the two factions drawn into the fray. Last week, two senior members of the Islamic State [IS] in the region were killed in Afghanistan in separate operations by the Taliban security forces, a Taliban spokesman said.