Three more die in anti-US protests
At least three more anti-US protesters were killed in Afghanistan today in clashes with police, officials said, as anger over the reported abuse of Islam’s holy book at the US jail in Guantanamo Bay spread across the country.
Police opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators in Khogyani, a town in eastern Nangarhar province, to prevent them from staging a demonstration, local police chief Major Gul Wali said. Wali said three protesters died and one was wounded.
However, Interior Ministry spokesman Latufallah Mashal said only two people died in Khogyani.
Mashal said a third protester died in a separate clash with police in Wardak province, south of the capital, Kabul.
Yesterday, at least four people died in the city of Jalalabad.
