Rebel Rocket Kills 17 in Kabul
Muslim guerrillas fired a rocket into the crowded business district of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 120, Kabul Radio said.
The radio, monitored in Islamabad, said the surface-to-surface rocket slammed into the Kabul money market. It said the victims included two Hindu money-changers. Eighteen of the injured were in critical condition, according to the broadcast.
“Many people were cut to pieces in the blast. Severed limbs lay everywhere,” a security man said.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the rocket landed on the roof of a two-story building in a small courtyard of the crowded semiofficial money bazaar just before noon.
The guerrillas, known as moujahedeen , or Islamic holy warriors, resumed rocketing the Afghan capital this week after a lull of nearly two months.
The moujahedeen have been fighting for more than 13 years to overthrow successive Communist-style governments.
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