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The Taliban’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Haqqani, has been killed in a bombing in Kabul on Wednesday, according to media reports.
Haqqani, a senior member of the powerful Haqqani network and uncle of the Taliban’s interior minister and senior leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, was handling the incoming refugee crisis in Afghanistan.
Local media reports suggested that he died inside a mosque after a powerful explosion ripped through the premises on Wednesday.
The casualties from the explosion are not immediately clear. The Taliban leadership has not confirmed the death of Haqqani.
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