A suicide bomber was killed and his comrade was wounded in a failed suicide car bombing in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan.

AVA- The provincial police commandment in a statement said the incident took place late on Thursday close to the provincial compound.

The statement further added that the suicide bomber was looking to detonate a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) close to a security and government compound but the explosives went off prematurely.

The suicide bomber was killed in the attack and his comrade wounded in the explosion is in custody of the intelligence operatives, undergoing treatment and will be probed regarding the attack, the statement added.

The anti-government armed militant groups have not commented regarding the incident so far.

Maidan Wardak is among the relatively volatile provinces in central parts of the country, located close to capital Kabul.

The anti-government armed militants are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency activities, mainly in the districts lying along the highway connecting Kabul with the southeastern and southern provinces.

The provincial police commandment in a statement said earlier this month that several Taliban insurgents including their local leaders were killed in a series of airstrikes in Salman Fars area in the provincial capital of Wardak province.