Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, confirmed on Thursday that Mullah Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the group’s governor of Balkh province, had been killed in an explosion.

Muzammil has been killed in a bomb explosion at his office in Mazar-e-Sharif city.

Sources said that the explosion happened when the Taliban governor was attending the provincial weekly meeting.

Mujahid stressed that an investigation into the killing of the governor of the group and the explosion is underway.

Muzammil was appointed as the governor of Balkh by the Taliban in September 2022.

The dead governor of Balkh had been considered as close to the Taliban leadership circle in Kandahar, the drug trafficking network, and Iran.