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12th July 2011, 09:57
FYI:
The younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, has been shot dead in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said.
Government sources in Kandahar said Ahmad Wali Karzai was assassinated mysteriously at his home in Kandahar on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Some sources report that he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards.
However, an Afghan intelligence official reiterated that he was killed by a visiting guest and not by a body guard.
The gunman has himself been killed by other bodyguards during the incident, the official said.
Wali Karzai was reportedly a powerful and well-connected figure and headed Kandahar's provincial council.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188710.html
The younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, has been shot dead in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said.
Government sources in Kandahar said Ahmad Wali Karzai was assassinated mysteriously at his home in Kandahar on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Some sources report that he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards.
However, an Afghan intelligence official reiterated that he was killed by a visiting guest and not by a body guard.
The gunman has himself been killed by other bodyguards during the incident, the official said.
Wali Karzai was reportedly a powerful and well-connected figure and headed Kandahar's provincial council.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188710.html