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Afghanistan: Rocket hits U.N. warehouse

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- An election-day rocket slammed into a U.N. warehouse Sunday east of Kabul, Afghanistan, though no one was killed in the attack.

The rocket hit a UNICEF warehouse on a U.N. based east of the Afghan capital. A U.N. official in Kabul told United Press International that one person was injured in the attack that also resulted in a small fire.

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No one has been blamed or taken credit for the rocket attack

However in recent days Taliban militants have threatened to disrupt the vote and called on Afghans to boycott it.

Some 12.4 million Afghans are registered to vote for the nation's first democratically elected Parliament in several decades.

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