Afghanistan: Rocket strike at wedding kills 28, including women and children

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan): An Afghan official says police are investigating a rocket strike on a wedding party that killed at least 28 people, many of them women and children. [caption id=“attachment_2025803” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] A rocket strike at a wedding in Afghanistan killed 28 people. AP[/caption] The deputy police chief of Helmand province, Bacha Gull, says the rocket strike on late Wednesday appeared to have been fired from an army checkpoint near the house in Sangin district as guests waited for the bride to arrive. Gull says police are “keeping an eye” on two army checkpoints to determine whether the soldiers manning them were engaged in a firefight with Taliban insurgents at the time or whether they fired the rockets arbitrarily. Gull says the strike wounded 51 people. Sangin, in the poppy-producing Helmand River valley, has been the scene of fighting between government forces and Taliban for the past six months. Associated Press