At the same time, six people have been killed in a rocket attack on the capital, Kabul.

The rocket, presumably fired by anti-Taleban forces, hit a fence between two houses in a residential part of the city.

Most of the dead were from one family.

There are also reports of fighting in the north, at Baghis.

The Taleban claim they have re-taken the district of Ghormach which they lost to the opposition alliance earlier this week.

There's been no word from the alliance.