A rocket fired into the Afghan capital Kabul late Saturday landed on a home near the city's police academy and killed three people, a police commander and witnesses said. Another rocket was also launched into the western residential neighbourhood but caused no casualties, they said.
"One of the rockets has landed on a house and has killed three people and wounded another three," a city police chief, General Alishah Paktiawal, told AFP. He could not identify the casualties but said they included women. The rocket destroyed one room of the home, which was about 100 metres (yards) from the police school, said an AFP photographer at the scene. People from the area said the dead were all women, he said.
It was not clear who had fired the rockets. The extremist Taliban are leading an insurgency that sees daily attacks in Afghanistan but other factions are also involved in the violence. Kabul was pelted with rockets during the civil war in the 1990s that left roughly 50,000-80,000 people dead.
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