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Rocket attack rocks N. Afghan city, injuring 6

Xinhua, July 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some six civilians were injured after militants fired two rockets towards Pul-e- Khumri city, capital of northern Afghan province of Baghlan, on Monday morning, police said.

"Two rockets fired by militants landed on two different residential areas. The blasts caused by the rockets injured two women and four children," a security source told Xinhua anonymously.

The second rocket slammed near the provincial police station. The type of the rockets was short-range BM-1, which often use by the Taliban militant group, according to the source.

The injured were shifted to hospitals where two children remained in critical condition in the city, 160 km north of Afghan capital, the source added.

Furthermore, one police was killed and two policemen wounded following a roadside bombing in western edge of the city late on Sunday, Jawid Basharat, a provincial police spokesman, told Xinhua earlier on Monday.

More than 970 civilians were killed and about 1,960 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led insurgency in the first four months of 2015, which showed a 16 percent increase over the same period last year, according to official figures released by the UN mission in the country. Endi