The police chief of southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack at the city’s police headquarters

The police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack at the city's police headquarters, officials said Friday.

"A suicide attacker detonated himself at the police headquarters. The police chief has been martyred," provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayubi said. The deputy police chief of Kandahar said that the attack on his boss, Khan Mohammad Mujahid, had also injured two other Afghan police officers.
  
"The suicide attacker had strapped explosives to his body," deputy chief Shir Shah said. "He detonated himself at the gate of Kandahar police headquarters. Police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid has been martyred, (and) two policemen have been injured."