(MENAFN)
Esmatullah Muradi, provincial government spokesman in Kunduz province of Afghanistan, said that Chardara district governor in Kunduz province and his two bodyguards were injured in a roadside blast on Sunday.
He was quoted saying that "Hafizullah Safi the governor of Chardara district was going to inspect a development project in a village today morning but a mine planted by militants struck his car wounding him and two of his bodyguards".
the official also added that an investigation was started in the case.
Chardara and Dasht-e-Archi districts have been witnessing Taliban-led militancy over the past decade.
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