Afghan peace council head killed in bomb attack
The chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, has been killed with several others in a bomb attack in Kabul, officials say.
Mr Rabbani was killed at his home by a suicide attacker who officials suspect had concealed a bomb in his turban.
He was meeting members of the Taliban at the time.
Mr Rabbani is a former president of Afghanistan and also led the main political opposition in the country.
A senior advisor to the peace council, Masoom Stanakzai, is also thought to have been seriously wounded in the attack.
Mike Wooldridge reports.
20 Sep 2011
- From the section South Asia