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| Bombing Kills Key Figure in Northern Afghan Province | Bombing Kills Key Figure in Northern Afghan Province |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber disguised as a police officer killed 14 people on Monday, including the head of a provincial council in northern Afghanistan, officials said. | |
| The head of the council, Rasul Mohseni, commonly known as Rasul Khan, was widely regarded as the most powerful man in Baghlan Province and was a veteran commander who had led northerners in revolt against the Taliban regime. He was killed along with four of his bodyguards and three police officers, as well as six civilians, according to Zubair Akbari, the province’s director of public health. Nine other people were wounded. | The head of the council, Rasul Mohseni, commonly known as Rasul Khan, was widely regarded as the most powerful man in Baghlan Province and was a veteran commander who had led northerners in revolt against the Taliban regime. He was killed along with four of his bodyguards and three police officers, as well as six civilians, according to Zubair Akbari, the province’s director of public health. Nine other people were wounded. |
| Sadiq Muradi, the deputy police chief of Baghlan Province, said that Mr. Mohseni had arrived at the provincial council offices in Pul-i-Kumri, Baghlan’s capital, with his bodyguards and a group of elders who wanted to meet with him and was walking toward the council building when the bomber joined the group. Dressed in a police uniform, the bomber mingled with officers until the group got inside the building, where he detonated a bomb hidden on his body. | |
| Mr. Mohseni, who was viewed as more powerful than either Baghlan’s governor or its police chief, had been accused of quietly rearming militia fighters in the north in case the Taliban again proved to be a threat. His brother Mustafa Mohseni is an Afghan general, and another brother, Azim Mohseni, is an influential member of Parliament. | |
| They were all prominent members of the Jamiat-i-Islami party, formerly led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was assassinated in 2011 by a Taliban suicide bomber pretending to be a peace emissary. | They were all prominent members of the Jamiat-i-Islami party, formerly led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was assassinated in 2011 by a Taliban suicide bomber pretending to be a peace emissary. |
Enayat Najafizada contributed reporting from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, and Jawad Sukhanyar from Kabul. | Enayat Najafizada contributed reporting from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, and Jawad Sukhanyar from Kabul. |