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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, June 22
22 Jun 2008 08:20:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0800 GMT on Sunday:

KHOST - Rockets fired from Pakistan hit a residential area in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday killing one woman and three children, the Afghan provincial governor said on Sunday.

KUNAR - A suspected Taliban rocket fired from Pakistan hit a hospital in the northeastern town of Asadabad in Kunar province on Saturday, killing one man and wounding another man and a woman, provincial Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi said.

PAKTIKA - Artillery shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army compound and close to an international military base in Afghanistan on Saturday and NATO forces returned fire, the alliance said. No casualties were reported.

GHAZNI - Afghan soldiers detained several militants, including one Pakistani national, in two separate districts in the province of Ghazni, south of Kabul, on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said.

ZABUL/KUNAR - Five Afghan soldiers were killed and three more wounded after coming under insurgent fire in two separate incidents in the northeastern province of Kunar and the southern province of Zabul on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said. (Compiled by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Valerie Lee)
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