A suicide bomber targeted the Afghan interior minister's car in a convoy north of Kabul on Sunday, the ministry said, but the minister was not in the vehicle at the time and the attacker was killed before he could detonate his explosives.
"A suicide bomber who targeted the interior minister's convey today was killed by police, the minister was not in the convoy," Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Twitter.
The minister had been planning to travel in the convoy, but changed his plans at the last minute and sent a deputy in his usual vehicle, Sediqqi told Reuters.
The spokesman for the governor of Parwan province, north of Kabul, had earlier said the minister was in the convoy and the attacker struck when he broke his journey to pray. Provincial governor's spokesman Roshan Khalid later said he was mistaken in saying the minister was present.
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