Kabul, August 04:Eight rockets struck the Afghan capital on Tuesday, including one not far from the US embassy, the interior ministry said, raising tensions just over two weeks before elections.
The city has not seen a significant attack in months but there are fears the Taliban and other insurgents will strike in the lead-up to the August 20 presidential and provincial council elections.
The rockets landed in various parts of the city, at least one of them in the area of the US embassy and others in the surrounds of the international airport and in the east, the interior ministry said.
“Our initial information is that eight rockets were fired into Kabul city early in the morning, which caused no casualties,” it said.
There are periodic rocket attacks in the city but they rarely cause casualties.
Kabul was hammered by scores of rockets daily during the civil war of the early 1990s.
–Agencies