Administrative chief of CSO gunned down in Paghman

KABUL (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen shot dead the administrative head of the Central Statistics Organisation (CSO) in the Paghman district of Kabul on Wednesday morning, security officials said.

Kabul police spokesman Firdos Faramarz told Pajhwok Afghan News that Mohammad Ismail Sahaak was shot dead in the Qala-i-Wazir gas station area of Paghman at around 6:30am.

Meanwhile a security source confided to this news agency that Sahak’s body was evacuated to the Emergency Hospital in Kabul after the shooting.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the killing of Sahaak in Paghman, where four individuals were killed and 15 others wounded as a result of blast two ago.

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