Violence erupts as Rice visits Afghanistan [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Violence erupts as Rice visits Afghanistan
Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:31 AM ET

By Saul Hudson and Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - Rockets exploded in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday and six soldiers and five aid workers were killed in attacks blamed on Taliban insurgents as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited for talks.

Taliban gunmen killed two doctors, two nurses and a driver working with an Afghan relief agency in the southern province of Kandahar as they returned from a visit to a village, a director of the agency said.

Before dawn, a rocket that exploded outside the Canadian ambassador's residence in Kabul wounded a guard, and a second rocket damaged a government building.

Later in the day, six government troops were reported killed in a Taliban ambush in the central province of Uruzgan, the provincial governor said.
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"The attacks after the elections are a clear indication of the frustration that exists (because) of the success in Afghanistan of the political process," she said after meeting President Hamid Karzai in his heavily fortified presidential palace.
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