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A rocket hit the outside wall of the luxury Serena hotel in the Afghan capital on Saturday wounding one Afghan soldier on the street outside, another soldier at the scene told Reuters.

A police source said two people were wounded. An employee of the hotel said there was no damage to the hotel. Police sealed off the roads leading up to the hotel, witnesses said.

No more details were immediately available.

Several rockets were fired at the hotel three weeks ago, forcing more than 100 people to rush into an underground bunker, on the same day as gunmen killed five foreign U.N. staff in a separate attack on a Kabul guest house.

In January 2008, several Taliban gunmen stormed the hotel, which is near the presidential palace, in a commando-style attack killing six people including a Norwegian journalist.

The Norwegian foreign minister who was staying at the hotel at the time, was unhurt. Since that attack, security has been stepped up at the hotel.

Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst levels since the Taliban was overthrown in 2001. The Islamist militants have spread their insurgency from the south and east of the country into previously peaceful areas.

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