Kabul, Aug 4 (DPA) Eight rockets were fired into Kabul early Tuesday, wounding two people, while police defused a ninth one before it was launched, interior ministry said.

'This morning at around 4 a.m., there were eight rocket attacks on Kabul city, and these rockets hit different districts of Kabul city,' Zemrai Bashary told the German Press Agency dpa.

'Fortunately there were no heavy casualties, only two civilians, a child and a man, were wounded,' he said, adding, 'The police have started an investigation into these rocket attacks.'

Bashary said that police units were immediately deployed to the area from where the rockets were fired, adding 'fortunately... another rocket was discovered and defused.'

One of the rockets landed in Wazir Akbar Khan, a diplomatic enclave, where the headquarters of the NATO-led internationals forces and several embassies including those of the United States, Germany, Britain and France are located, a police official said.

Other rockets landed near the international airport, the city centre and in the eastern part of the city, where several NATO military camps are located.