KABUL:  Three Rockets landed near the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, during prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, a live television broadcast showed. Eid prayer session was attended by President Ashraf Ghani and other senior politicians and officials.

Hamid Roshan, the deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, said the rockets were set in auto and were launched from Kabul's Police District 4 area, as per reports. The rockets landed when the prayer session had just started at an open ground inside the palace compound, the report added. Sources have confirmed that the rockets landed in Bagh-e-Ali Mardan and Chaman-e-Hozori areas in Kabul's District 1 and Manabe Bashari area in Kabul's District 2, all near the Presidential Palace.

The attack comes a day after 15 diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul urged the Taliban to halt offensives, just hours after the group and the Afghan government failed to agree on a ceasefire at their talks in Doha.

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