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 reach the particular U.S.-run Bagram airfield at the Afghan capital, destroying a helicopter from the NATO-led forces as well as killing about three Afghan employee inside, a new spokesman for the coalition said upon Tuesday.

The attack, which will procured location during all-around 10 pm neighborhood occasion on Monday, arrived within the eve from the 11th anniversary with the September 11 attacks. Security across the capital, Kabul, was intensified.

Two employees belonging that will NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), exactly who were also inside helicopter, were being wounded, the spokesman said.

The Taliban, in a very text message to Reuters, maintained duty to the attack, declaring they will had let go rockets at the helicopter, that's on the slam throughout this airfield.

The assault came up some sort of morning after the United States surpassed command belonging to the controversial massive Bagram jail as well as its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to help Afghan authorities.

Recent several weeks have witnessed become more intense violence throughout Afghanistan. The infiltration with Bagram occurs days to weeks once a youthful person in his teens detonated explosives near the actual closely barricaded NATO home office in Kabul, getting rid of 6 months time civilians as well as children.

That attack followed some sort of suicide bombing of a memorial service within far eastern Nangarhar province, which often wiped out as a minimum 25.

Despite the presence of thousands and thousands of Afghan and overseas troops struggling with that Taliban-led insurgency, physical violence is at its worst since Islamists had been toppled by simply Afghan and U.S. forces around delayed 2001, five years when they went on power.

The United Nations pronounces this Taliban tend to be the cause of 80 percent involving civilian casualties while in the conflict.

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