By Xinhua,
Kabul : Two rockets fired by militants landed on International Airport in Afghan capital Kabul Thursday morning wounded two persons, Afghanistan Interior Ministry said.
“One of the rockets fired from Koh-e-Safi area in east direction landed on the premises of the airport caused no damage but the second rocket hit just outside the airport wounding two persons both are civilians,” an official at the press department of interior ministry told Xinhua but refused to be named.
It is the first time that Kabul airport came under rocket attack.
Taliban militants fighting Afghan government were not available to make comment so far.
The anti-government militants have carried out two suicide and roadside bombings early this week in and around Kabul killing four persons and wounding 14 others almost all of them civilians.
Moreover, the ministry in a press release said that Afghan police shot dead a would-be suicide bomber in the eastern Khost province on Wednesday while five more insurgents were killed in the southern Uruzgan province on the same day, the press release added.
Taliban insurgents who staged a violent comeback three years ago have intensified their activities in the capital Kabul over the past several months to mount pressure on the government.
Conflicts and spiraling insurgency have claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people including militants, troops and civilians so far this year in Afghanistan.