Foreign site struck in Afghanistan

A foreign reconstruction site has reportedly come under attack in the provincial capital of Zabul Province located in the south of Afghanistan.


The target of the attack was identified as a military-and-civilian-run provincial reconstruction team in the city of Qalat, AFP reported on Sunday.

“There has been one big blast near the PRT office," said Zabul's Deputy Governor Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar.

“The fighting is ongoing between the police and attackers," he said.

There has been no word on possible casualties yet.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to AFP.

The past few months have witnessed a surge in violence in Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghans and US-led foreign troops have died in the violence, which has stoked the opposition of NATO members to the US-led war which has been raging in Afghanistan since 2001.