Afghan official killed by suicide bomber

An Afghan policeman stands near a vehicle which carried the deputy governor of Kandahar province, Abdul Latif Ashna, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo / AP

The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the spiritual home of the Taleban, has been killed by a suicide bomber. Abdul Latif Ashna had just left his home and was on his way to his office when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near his vehicle.