Afghanistan Incidents for 5-15-06

Afghanistan:
#1: In another incident, unidentified militants fired five rockets at the headquarters of provincial security forces, 15 kilometers south of Miranshah, the center of North Waziristan. No rocket hit the target.

#2: Armed masked men entered the fort at Jandola area of South Waziristan and killed the registrar of the local administration at 1 am, correspondents said. The armed men requested the militiamen to open the checkpost, saying they wanted to take a patient to hospital. But when the militiamen wanted to search their car, the armed men empowered them and three of the men entered the office of the registrar and opened fire on him. The registrar died on the spot. The armed men took the three militiamen, who were released later.

#3: Five American soldiers were wounded Saturday in a roadside bomb blast. The American soldiers were wounded while on patrol in Peche Valley in eastern Kunar Province, near the border with Pakistan and the scene of repeated clashes between insurgents and American and Afghan government troops.

#4: (update) A local staff member of Malteser International has been killed on Friday in an attack in northwestern Afghanistan. He was on his way from Quala-I-Naw to Herat with a UN convoy, which was ambushed with rocket-propelled grenades around noon. The driver of the UN vehicle died immediately. The 30-year-old employee of Malteser International, a doctor and supervisor of the hospital of Quala-I-Naw and 10 health care centers, managed to run away at first, but was shot while fleeing.

#5: Two Canadian soldiers were injured Monday when a blast went off near their armoured vehicle outside of Gumbad in southern Afghanistan. Their injuries are not life-threatening, said military officials. They had been sent in a Nyala armoured jeep to repair a vehicle that was part of a Canadian convoy moving north to Gumbad, a village about 74 kilometres north of Kandahar. Canada set up a small military outpost in Gumbad over two months ago.

#6: A French soldier was killed Monday in a blast during a mine clearance operation near Afghanistan's main international airport in the capital, the French military said. The soldier, aged 22, was seriously hurt in the explosion and died later of his wounds, the military said in a statement.