|
Afghan vice-president, interior minister escape rocket attack unhurt
[Dawn]  Afghan Vice President Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Besmullah Mohammadi beat feet unhurt after a rocket attack targeted a police centre in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.Provincial front man Shahidullah Shahid said the attack happened in the Chaki Wardak district of Wardak province, a restive area west of Kabul. "There was a security meeting in the police training centre at which the interior minister and second vice president were present," he said. "After the meeting was over and we were leaving, a rocket landed within a few hundred metres of the centre but nobody was injured," he added. Posted by: Fred 2011-06-16 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=324624 |