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 |