Four people were killed and 14 others were injured Monday in twin Taliban attacks in the Afghan city of Herat and at an Italian-led NATO reconstruction team.

Four people were killed and 14 others were injured Monday in twin Taliban attacks in the Afghan city of Herat and at an Italian-led NATO reconstruction team.

"Four are martyred and 24 are injured", said Ghulam Sayed Rashid, Herat provincial health director.
"Among the wounded we have four children and a woman. The rest are men".

Italian press agency Ansa reported that 15 Italians had been injured, quoting parliamentary sources, but the Italian defense ministry could not confirm this.

An AFP reporter at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Herat said there had been a large explosion at the gate and there was a crater at the scene, with fragments of twisted metal from at least one car scattered around.

Farooq Kohistani, Herat's criminal investigation chief, had earlier put the death toll at two with 26 wounded.
"There was a suicide attack at the gate of Herat PRT and a second in the city centre", he said.
Kohistani did not have details on whether the dead were foreign or Afghan, or what the target of the second blast was.

Taliban movement claimed the attack, with its spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP news agency: "Our mujahedeen are working on the operation in Heart”.