Nearly two dozen rockets fall on Afghan capital, killing at least eight and wounding scores.
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least eight people were killed and dozens wounded when rockets landed on various parts of the Afghan capital Saturday morning, a government official said. The attack followed two magnetic bomb blasts in other parts of the city earlier in the day and add to a spate of violence that’s continued throughout the country despite ongoing peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The sound of rocket fire followed by explosions could be heard shortly before 9 a.m. in densely populated areas around Kabul’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where the U.S. Embassy and NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters are located. One of the rockets landed on the Iranian Embassy compound, but wounded no one, the embassy said in a statement. Aliya Azizi, a resident of the Qala-e-Musa neighborhood, said at least two rockets fell near her house and shattered its windows.
