Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the Taliban’s deputy governor of Badakhshan, has been killed in a car explosion in Faizabad city, on Tuesday.

Taliban’s director of information and culture in Badakhshan said that the attack has also wounded six others.

Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director of information and culture of Badakhshan, confirmed to Afghanistan International that the attack took place on Tuesday morning when the deputy governor was on his way to the Taliban’s provincial court.

Ahmadi stressed that investigation into this attack is currently ongoing.

So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Taliban’s deputy governor in Badakhshan province.