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Taliban militants killed Dawa Khan Menapal in the capital after warning they would target officials.
The director of Afghanistan’s media and information centre has been assassinated by Taliban militants in the capital, Kabul.
Dawa Khan Menapal was killed by gunmen on Darul Aman Road in the capital, reports said.
The Taliban said he had been “punished for his deeds”.
It came as local officials said that the southern city of Zaranj had become the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban.
A government source told the BBC that the insurgents had taken the city in Nimroz province, on the border with Iran, on Friday. The source said fighting was still happening around the National Directorate of Security office.
The reports have not been officially confirmed.
Menapal’s killing came days after ….
