By DPA
Kabul : Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan Sunday fired rockets at a gathering of tribal elders attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior government officials, a spokesman for the insurgents said.
The claimed attack took place at around 11 a.m. in the Andar district of Ghazni province, located southwest of the capital Kabul, Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousef Ahmadi said over the phone from an undisclosed location.
"Mujahideen (fighters) fired 12 rockets at the place where Karzai and some of his ministers were attending a meeting," Ahmadi said, adding that the area was obscured by clouds of dust thrown up the blasts and by helicopters that arrived shortly afterwards.
There was no immediate response about the incident from Afghan government officials.