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  • 23/08/2012
The mayor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city has been killed in a suicide bombing, provincial officials say.

Ghulam Haidar Hameedi was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a corridor near Hamidi's office, Zalmay Ayoubi, the spokesperson for the Kandahar governor, said on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Kabul.

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