Kabul, May 12: Attackers fired three rockets at two eastern Afghan towns where US forces have bases over the weekend, but no casualties were reported, the US military said today. Two rockets were fired near the eastern town of Gardez on Saturday, while another landed near Orgun farther south, the military said in a statement from its headquarters at Bagram Air Base, north of the capital.
No injuries or damage was reported in either incident. US forces regularly come under rocket attack in Afghanistan but the rockets are crude and rarely hit their targets or cause damage.
About 11,500 coalition troops, most of them American, are deployed in the country hunting down Taliban rebels and their allies, who sporadically engage US forces in gunbattles. A US soldier shot in the leg during a firefight Saturday near the eastern town of Khost was flown yesterday to a US Army medical center in Landstuhl, Germany, the statement said.
Meanwhile, four Afghans were treated Saturday by coalition doctors at Bagram after suffering serious injuries in a mine explosion in the area, the military said. Bureau Report