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2 explosions heard in Kabul
www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-16 17:11:39

    KABUL, Dec. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Two explosions were heard here on Tuesday after at least two rockets hit the Afghan capital city overnight, witnesses said.

    The fresh blasts, possibly rocket explosions, occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time as delegates were debating the country's new constitution in a west Kabul campus.

    "The explosions might happened in an area to the east of the city," a police officer patrolling on a street told Xinhua.

    At least two rockets hit Kabul on Monday night, damaging one mud house in a slum village near the Kabul airport, but leaving nocasualties.

    The rocket attacks took place at a time when a constitutional assembly was underway at a college campus, which is about 2.5 kilometers away from the overnight attacks, to ratify a new constitution for the post-Taliban country.

    The ousted Taliban movement and renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose fighters are stepping up an insurgency against the US-backed government, vowed earlier to disrupt the assembly. Enditem

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