KABUL Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:28am EDT
KABUL (Reuters) - Four rockets have got struck the U.S.-run Bagram airfield close to this Afghan capital, wiping out a helicopter belonging towards the NATO-led energies as well as getting rid of a few Afghan personnel inside, your spokesman for any coalition said on Tuesday.
The attack, which in turn happened during around twelve pm regional moment on Monday, followed for the eve in the 11th loved-one's birthday of this September 11 attacks. Security throughout the capital, Kabul, was intensified.
Two workers belonging for you to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), exactly who were being in addition inside the helicopter, were wounded, that spokesman said.
The Taliban, around some sort of text message in order to Reuters, maintained responsibility intended for the attack, expressing they experienced let go rockets in the helicopter, which was on the ramp in the airfield.
The episode arrived every day following on from the United States exceeded control from the controversial huge Bagram jail and also its 3,000 diagnosed Taliban inmates for you to Afghan authorities.
Recent several weeks can see more intense violence all over Afghanistan. The strike about Bagram comes days and nights soon after some sort of younger teen detonated explosives close to the closely barricaded NATO head office in Kabul, eliminating five civilians like children.
That attack adopted some sort of suicide bombing of an funeral obituary in far eastern Nangarhar province, which in turn killed no less than 25.
Despite the existence of numerous countless numbers of Afghan and also foreign troops preventing the particular Taliban-led insurgency, violence reaches its worst because this Islamists had been toppled through Afghan and U.S. makes within late 2001, five years after they took power.
The United Nations says the Taliban will be in charge of 80 percent connected with civilian casualties within the conflict.
(Reprting by Jessica Donati; Writing by means of Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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