A bomb attack has killed Afghanistan's Kandahar Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi and wounded another, an Afghan official says.
"An explosion ripped through Municipality department of Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province this morning, killing Kandahar Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi," Xinhua quoted spokesman for the provincial administration Zalmai Ayubi as saying on Wednesday.
The bomb detonated when Hamidi was addressing citizens in the courtyard of the city hall of Kandahar.
"Mayor Hamidi was meeting with some people when a man planed explosive device in his turban entered the meeting hall and blew it up, killing the Mayor and injured another," a press release added.
The bomber was also killed in the blast, the press release said.
The incident took place just two weeks after the controversial and powerful brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was assassinated in the same city.
There has been surge in attacks on Afghan officials over the past years, which have claimed the lives of many of them.
The security situation has steadily worsened across Afghanistan over the past few years despite the presence of around 150,000 US-led foreign troops in the country.
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