A university lecturer in Nangarhar, Massoud Nekbakht, was killed in an embedded IED bomb blast in the city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, the provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said.
Nekbakht was head of the Literature Faculty of Nangarhar University.
Mr. Khogyani said that three others were wounded in the blast.
He said that the explosion targeted Nekbakht’s vehicle.
Nekbakht was the nephew of a well-known former Jihadi leader Mawlawi Khalis, Mr. Khogyani said.