Nine killed in Afghanistan over Quran burning
Afghan’s interior ministry said it would investigate all deaths
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At least nine demonstrators were shot dead and dozens wounded today in violent protests across Afghanistan over the burning of the Quran at a US-run military base, officials said.
Officials attributed most of the deaths to clashes with police while Afghan’s interior ministry blamed at least one death on "foreign guards of Camp Phoenix", a US military base.
The ministry said it would investigate all the deaths, blaming some of them on "security guards" at unnamed foreign bases.
A spokesman said it was not known whether the guards were Afghans or foreigners.
In Kabul and in some provinces furious Afghans took to the streets screaming "Death to America", pelting stones and setting fire to shops and vehicles as gunshots rang out.
In Jalalabad city, students set fire to an effigy of President Barack Obama and the US embassy in Kabul went into lockdown.
US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, apologised and ordered an investigation into the incident.
He admitted that religious materials, including Qurans "were inadvertently taken to an incineration facility".
Allen and US deputy defence secretary Ashton Carter called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai today to apologise again for the incident at Bagram airbase, the president's office said.
Source: news.outlookindia.com
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