Violence erupts in Afghanistan during Rice visit

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KABUL (Reuters) - Rockets exploded in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday and six soldiers and five aid workers were killed in attacks blamed on Taliban insurgents as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited for talks.

Taliban gunmen killed two doctors, two nurses and a driver working with an Afghan relief agency in the southern province of Kandahar as they returned from a visit to a village, a director of the agency said.

Before dawn, a rocket that exploded outside the Canadian ambassador's residence in Kabul wounded a guard and a second rocket damaged a government building.

Later in the day, six government soldiers were reported killed in a Taliban ambush in the central province of Uruzgan, the provincial governor said.