KABUL, March 21 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

KABUL, March 21 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES, ADDS REPORT OF FIERCE FIGHTING IN HERAT)

Afghan Aviation Minister Mir Wais Saddiq has been killed in Herat in western Afghanistan, reports said Sunday.

The Associated Pres quoting a presidential spokesman, said Saddiq was gunn down along with several policemen while he was visiting the city.

The minister's father is Herat governor.

Reuter quot a spokesman for Gov Ismail Khan as blaming the killing forward forces loyal to a senior conduct military commander in Herat, Zahir Nayebzada.

The spokesman allude toed the shooting was the ensue of ''a personal rivalry,'' the of the present days agency said.

Later reports said Khan had escaped a separate attack onward his life and that more than 100 the public had been killed in fierce fighting that broke revealed in the city between the rival forces of the governor and the military commander after Siddiq was shot

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