Kabul, Afghanistan - Two blasts went off Wednesday as the governor of Helmand province was headed to Kandahar to take part in the funeral for President Hamid Karzai's half-brother.
The remotely-detonated mine explosions in Kandahar's Maivand district wounded two soldiers but the Helmand governor, Mohammad Gulab Mangal, was unhurt.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Kandahar provincial council chief, was killed Tuesday by a guard during a gathering at his house a day prior.
He was laid to rest Wednesday, with the president in attendance.
Saidkhan Khakrezwal, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, mentioned that he and others were with Karzai when a guard named Sardar Mohammad came into the room and asked to talk to him.
The guard then "takes Wali to another room and shoots him with a pistol that he had in his hand," Khakrezwal said. The shooter was shot dead by other guards.
Sardar Mohammad was a trusted man who had worked as a guard for Karzai for eight years, Khakrezwal said. He was also a commander for a police post where there were about 30 policemen.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying that the guard accused of shooting him was working for them.
Karzai suffered bullet wounds to his head and chest, said Mohammad Dawood Farhad, the head of Kandahar Hospital."My brother Ahmad Wali Karzai was killed today, the Afghanistan people have suffered a lot. Every Afghan family has suffered. I hope one day these sufferings end ." said the Afghan president in a previously scheduled news conference with visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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