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Kabul - 18 October 2018
1. Various of news conference by security forces
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, Afghanistan Army Chief of Staff:
"The attack happened outside (the meeting hall) and it was done by a man called Gulbuddin and he was one of the Kandahar governor's guards, it happened when they were leaving towards a small airfield (helipad). His first target was General Abdul Raziq."
3. Cameraman filming
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) General Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi, deputy interior minister:
"It was a terrorist attack which happened around 15:30 (11:00G), while the security authorities were leaving the meeting hall, a terrorist who was trained before attacked them."
5. Various of news conference
STORYLINE:
The Afghanistan Army has provided further details of an attack which saw three top officials killed in Kandahar province on Thursday.
General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, Afghanistan Army Chief of Staff, said the officials were fired upon by the Kandahar governor's guards as they left a security conference and headed towards a helipad.
He also said one of the victims General Abdul Raziq, a powerful provincial police chief, was the gunman's first target.
Raziq was killed along with Kandahar Governor Zalmay Wesa, who died of his wounds at a nearby hospital.
Provincial intelligence chief Abdul Mohmin also died inside the governor's sprawling residence where the attack occurred.
In a telephone interview however, the spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern region, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said the Taliban carried out the attack and said Washington's top general in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, who escaped without injury was the target.
General Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi, Afghanistan deputy interior minister, added the attack happened at around 15:30 local time (13:00GMT).
Three Americans — a service member and two civilian workers — were wounded in the shooting, said a spokesman for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Raziq was a particularly powerful figure in southern Kandahar and a close US ally despite widespread allegations of corruption.
He ruled in Kandahar, the former Taliban heartland, with an iron fist and had survived several attempts to kill him, including one last year that resulted in the death of five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.
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