It was a busy day in Kabul city.
[ToloNews] At least 14 rockets landed in various parts of Kabul on Saturday morning just one hour after two IED explosions in the city. The Interior Affairs Ministry said three people were killed and 11 more were maimed in the rocket attacks.
The rockets landed in Wazir Akbar Khan and Shahr-e-Naw areas in downtown Kabul, Chahar Qala, the Traffic Roundabout, the Gul-e-Surkh Roundabout in PD4, Sedarat Roundabout, the Spinzar Road in the center of the city, near the National Archive road in PD2, and in Lysee Maryam market and Panjsad Family areas in the north of Kabul, according to the ministry.
The rockets landed in various parts of Kabul a few minutes after two explosions happened in Chehel Sutoon and Arzaan Qeemat areas.
The explosion in Arzaan Qeemat left one security force member dead and three more maimed.
Most of those who were maimed in the rocket attacks were taken to Emergency Hospital in Shahr-e-Naw area in Kabul.
Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...denied involvement in the attack.
11:10 am
Doctors from Emergency Hospital say one dead and 28 maimed have been taken to the hospital following rocket attacks in the city.
11:20 am
The corpse count rises to 5 in Kabul rocket attacks, the Public Health Ministry, said, adding that 21 more were maimed in the attacks.
11:30 am
The rockets were fired from two areas in Kabul: the market roundabout and Tahye Maskan areas, police said.
11:40 am
One of the rockets landed within the compound of Iran's Embassy in Kabul this morning but had no casualties, the Iranian embassy says in a statement.
12:10 pm
The corpse count in Kabul rocket attacks raised to 8, the Interior Affairs Ministry said, adding that 31 more were maimed.
The ministry said 23 rockets were fired on different parts of Kabul.
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The Iranian embassy said on Twitter that its main building had been hit by rocket fragments after a missile landed on the premises. No one on the compound, located just outside the Green Zone, was wounded.
Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian blamed the Taliban, saying "terrorists" had fired a total of 23 rockets.
The Taliban denied responsibility, saying they "do not blindly fire on public places".
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The #ISIS extremist group claims responsibility for deadly rocket attacks on densely populated parts of the Afghan capital, in a statement on its Telegram channels.https://t.co/1IM8YN8lLZ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) November 21, 2020