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Rocket crashes inside Indian Ambassador Manpreet Vohra's house in Kabul

No reports of any injury, according to external affairs ministry sources

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Agencies Kabul/New Delhi
A rocket on Tuesday crashed into the tennis court of Indian Ambassador Manpreet Vohra's house, but there were no reports of any injury, external affairs ministry sources said.

Apart from the Indian Ambassador's residence, other mission staff also stay inside the premises.

"No injury reported so far," a source said in New Delhi.

The attack happened at about 11.15 am in the heavily fortified diplomatic quarter in Kabul which houses a number of embassies, according to local reports.

Streets in the city centre, especially around the Presidential Palace, the Green Zone and Wazir Akbar Khan, were largely closed off by security forces after the

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