An influential Afghan MP and more than a dozen of his guests at a family wedding have been killed after a suicide bomber infiltrated the party in the north of the war-torn country, the third assassination of a senior official in two days.
Ahmad Khan Samangani, an ethnic Uzbek MP, was attending the wedding of his daughter and his nephew in Aybak, the capital of the northern province of Samangan, when the blast happened...
...When the bomber struck, most of the guests had already arrived at the wedding hall for an event that can be held very early in northern Afghanistan. Samangani was at the door welcoming a group of guests and elders from the regional hub, Mazar-e-Sharif city, Andarabi said.
The provincial head of the intelligence service was also among the 15 dead, said the deputy provincial governor, Ghulam Sakhi. Around 60 others were wounded, including senior police and army commanders, and the death toll was likely to rise, he warned.
"I visited the wounded in hospital, the situation of some of them was very bad," he told the Guardian by phone, adding that the toll had been so high partly because "the killer was walking among the guests". The bride and groom survived...
...The killing came the day after a provincial governor of women's affairs was killed by a bomb attached to her car in eastern Afghanistan, and the mayor of Shindand district in western Afghanistan was shot dead by unknown gunmen as he left a mosque.
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