The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were killed in an explosion in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, his nephew said.

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s minister for refugees and repatriation, was killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing at his office in Kabul, marking the highest-profile casualty since the group retook power three years ago.

Taliban minister Khalil Rahman Haqqani, a key Haqqani network member, dies in Kabul bomb blast amid growing tensions.