At least 10 people have been killed in rocket and bomb attacks by suspected Taliban fighters as voting takes place in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.

An attack near a polling station in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province killed one Afghan soldier and six pro-government fighters on Saturday.

In Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan at least three people were killed and two injured in an explosion at a polling station.

Taliban fighters also fired rockets in several cities including Kabul, the Afghan capital, and set off bombs alongside a convoy carrying the governor of Kandahar, the Taliban heartland in the south.

“We are hearing of many incidents throughout Afghanistan. People are getting killed, polling stations are being bombed and rockets are being fired. It is clear there is already a great deal of violence,” Al Jazeera’s James Bays reported from Kabul.
 
Despite the reports of acts violence coming in from across the country, Afghan security officials said that security had been better than expected and that several planned attacks had been thwarted.

Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the defence ministry spokesman, told a news conference that there had been no serious security incident linked to the election.

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