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1st LD Writethru: 3 civilians killed in N. Afghan rocket attack

Xinhua, March 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Some three civilians were killed and two others wounded after militants fired a rocket towards Pul-e-Khumri city, capital of northern Afghan province of Baghlan, on Tuesday morning, police said.

"The rocket fired by Taliban militants struck a house in Sahsad Qutee locality in Pul-e-Khumri at 08:15 a.m. local time, killing three members of a family and injuring two others," the provincial police spokesman Zabiullah Shoja told Xinhua.

The injured were shifted to a hospital in the city, 160 km north of Kabul.

Several rockets and mortar shells have hit the city since eruption of fighting between security forces and Taliban militants in Dand-e-Ghori and Dand-e-Shahabudin districts outside the town over the past one month.

More than 3,540 civilians were killed and over 7,450 injured as the violence spread in different places of the war-hit country last year, according to a report released by the UN mission in the country on Feb. 14.

The report has attributed 62 percent of the casualties to the Taliban and other insurgent groups, 17 percent were attributed to security forces while the rest 21 percent of civilian casualties were unattributed or caused by explosive remnants of war. Endit