Two killed as Afghan polls open

At least two people have been killed in the first hours of polling in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, officials said.

Rockets struck major cities throughout the country – the first one slamming into the capital before dawn, followed in the next few hours by a series of rockets in eastern Ghazni, Gardez and Jalalabad cities, as well as Kandahar in the south and old Baghlan in the north. The Baghlan rocket killed two civilians, said police spokesman Kamen Khan.