Civilian Casualties - Killing Three Afghan Staff Reuters - Airbase North Of Kabul - Rockets Hit U

KABUL Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:28am EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Four rockets have got click your U.S.-run Bagram airfield close to the Afghan capital, destroying a helicopter on the NATO-led energies and also killing three Afghan employees inside, some sort of spokesman for any coalition explained on Tuesday.

The attack, which in turn took place from all around 10 pm local period on Monday, followed about that eve with this 11th wedding anniversary in the September eleven attacks. Security across the capital, Kabul, had been intensified.

Two employee that belong to be able to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which had been additionally from the helicopter, have been wounded, the spokesman said.

The Taliban, inside a text for you to Reuters, claimed responsibility for any attack, telling they will have terminated rockets during the helicopter, which has been over a ramp in the airfield.

The strike came a day time following the United States surpassed control with the questionable giant Bagram jail and its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to be able to Afghan authorities.

Recent days have witnessed increased physical violence over Afghanistan. The assault on Bagram comes days and nights soon after a young adolescent detonated explosives near the closely barricaded NATO home office inside Kabul, preventing half a dozen civilians such as children.

That strike implemented your suicide bombing on the funeral obituary around eastern Nangarhar province, which harmed no less than 25.

Despite your reputation associated with hundreds of countless Afghan plus foreign troops battling the particular Taliban-led insurgency, violence is definitely during it has the most severe considering that Islamists had been toppled simply by Afghan along with U.S. forces inside later 2001, five years once they took power.

The United Nations pronounces the Taliban are responsible for 80 percentage associated with civilian casualties from the conflict.

(Reprting by simply Jessica Donati; Writing by way of Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by means of Nick Macfie)