Humera Ehmedzai, a colleague of slain Afghan governor Arsallah Jamal, who’s picture is on the wall behind her, cries at his funeral ceremony at the Eid Gha mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct 17, 2013. Afghan officials, dignitaries and family members attended the funeral of the governor of eastern Logar province, who was killed in an insurgent attack earlier this week. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials, dignitaries and family members attended the funeral Thursday for a provincial governor assassinated in a high-profile bombing earlier this week.
The ceremony for Logar Gov. Arsallah Jamal was held at a mosque in Kabul. He was buried later in a cemetery in the Afghan capital.
A bomb killed Jamal as he delivered a speech Tuesday at the main mosque in the Logar capital of Puli Alam to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Jamal was the highest ranking official killed in recent months.
No group has claimed responsibility for the killing, but it bore the hallmarks of a Taliban attack. They have been fighting the Afghan government and foreign troops since the U.S. invasion in late 2001.
