Maidan Shar (Afghanistan), Oct. 11 (Xinhua-ANI): Two civilians were killed and two were wounded in a Taliban rocket attack in eastern Wardak province overnight, the police said Thursday.
"Two adult men were killed and two others wounded when a rocket fired by Taliban insurgents hit a construction company in provincial capital Maidan Shar last night," provincial police chief, Qaum Bakizai, told Xinhua.
The injured were shifted to a hospital in the city, 35 km west of Afghan capital Kabul, he said.
A total of 1,145 Afghan civilians were killed and 1,954 injured in conflicts in the first six months of 2012 in insurgency-hit country, according to a UN report released in Kabul on Aug. 8.
It attributed 80 percent of the civilian deaths to the attacks of Taliban insurgents and other armed groups and 10 percent of the deaths were attributed to Afghan and NATO-led forces. (Xinhua-ANI)
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