KABUL Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:28am EDT
KABUL (Reuters) - Four rockets include reach the particular U.S.-run Bagram airfield in close proximity to that Afghan capital, eradicating your helicopter belonging to the NATO-led aids along with getting rid of a few Afghan people inside, a spokesman for that coalition said on Tuesday.
The attack, which happened at all around 10 pm local moment on Monday, came up within the eve of the 11th anniversary with the September 11 attacks. Security surrounding the capital, Kabul, was intensified.
Two people belonging for you to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who seem to ended up as well within the helicopter, had been wounded, the spokesman said.
The Taliban, within a text that will Reuters, believed responsibility with regard to this attack, stating they will had dismissed rockets at your helicopter, that was using a ramp within the airfield.
The attack came each day following on from the United States exceeded deal with from the suspect large Bagram prison as well as their 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates in order to Afghan authorities.
Recent months may see become more intense physical violence all around Afghanistan. The assault upon Bagram will come days to weeks immediately after a young person in his teens detonated explosives close to the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters within Kabul, eliminating six civilians like children.
That attack used your committing suicide bombing connected with your funeral in far eastern Nangarhar province, which usually wiped out at least 25.
Despite that existence connected with tons connected with Afghan as well as currency troops combating this Taliban-led insurgency, violence is definitely at its worst given that the Islamists were toppled by Afghan as well as U.S. forces around delayed 2001, five decades if they needed power.
The United Nations claims the particular Taliban are generally the cause of 80 percentage of civilian casualties inside the conflict.
(Reprting through Jessica Donati; Writing by means of Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing through Nick Macfie)
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