Governor Arsala Jamal was reading out a message to the locals following the Eid al-Adah prayers. At that moment, an improvised explosive device (IED) planted under the tribune was detonated, killing Jamal at the scene," provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad Darwish told Xinhua.

Fifteen people were injured in the incident which took place around 8.45 a.m. in Pul-e-Alam, some 60 km south of national capital Kabul.