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KABUL, April 27 (Reuters) - At least three rockets were fired close to the Afghan capital's main airport on Friday night on the eve of the arrival in Kabul of U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said.

General Deen Mohammad Joorat, the Interior Ministry's chief of security affairs said there was no damage or casuality from the attack.

"They were fired by electric cables wired up to a battery," Joorat told Reuters. "They landed on flat ground just outside the perimeter of the airport and we don't know the reason behind it." The missiles struck at about 10:55 p.m. Friday (1825 GMT).

Rumsfeld, on a trip to Central Asian republics and Afghanistan, was scheduled to visit Kabul later on Saturday to meet interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and other top government leaders to address security problems in the war-battered nation.

He was due to fly into Bagram air base north of Kabul to meet U.S. troops involved in hunting members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, chief suspects in September 11's suicide attacks on the United States. 

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