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2020-08-20 Afghanistan
3 Killed, 16 Wounded in Kabul Rocket Attacks
Follow up to this report from yesterday.
[ToloNews] Three were killed, and 16 were maimed--including six civilians--in Tuesday's rocket attacks in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday.

Two of those killed were babus government employees, the MoI said, and there were children among the maimed.

At least 14 rockets were fired in Kabul city, including eight launched from PD16 and six from PD17, a security source said on Tuesday, adding that "all rockets were launched from two Toyota "Corolla" vehicles.

Eyewitnesses said that the rockets landed in Wazir Akbar Khan, Sherpur, first Macroryan and Shashdarak areas of Kabul.

At least seven people were maimed in rocket blasts in the surrounding area of the Presidential Palace, a source said on Tuesday.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
officials at the Palace have not yet confirmed the incident.

No group has grabbed credit for the incidents.

The rocket attacks started after President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
placed a wreath at the Minaret of Independence at the Ministry of Defense building to mark Afghanistan’s 101st Independence Day.
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