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Rocket hits TV station compound in Kabul

A powerful rocket exploded in a television station compound in the Afghan capital near an area where the US embassy and NATO peacekeeping force headquarters are based.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

KABUL: A powerful rocket exploded in a television station compound in the Afghan capital late on Wednesday, near an area where the United States embassy and NATO peacekeeping force headquarters are based, police said.

The massive blast from the "very strong" rocket sent shrapnel flying hundreds of meters but it was not known if there were any casualties, an official at Kabul police command said.

A police source near the scene said a guard inside the Kabul TV compound had been injured but had no further details.

Station officials were not immediately available for comment.

Soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force have sealed off the area, the source said.

The television station is across the street from the heavily-fortified ISAF headquarters in the barbed wire and blockade-strewn heart of Kabul.

The US embassy, other diplomatic missions and UN offices are also nearby. There are regular rocket attacks in the city but they seldom cause much damage or hit any significant targets.

Tight security also spares the capital much of the violence caused by an ongoing insurgency blamed on militants loyal to the fundamentalist Taliban regime that was ousted in a US-led campaign in late 2001.

However two ISAF troops, one German and one Portuguese, were killed by suicide attacks in Kabul in November.

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