One person was killed and 10 were wounded when shots were fired at anti-US demonstrators in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, a doctor told AFP.
"I saw the body myself. He is a young man from the protesters," Doctor Ahmad Ali said, adding that 10 others had been admitted to Jalalabad hospital with gunshot wounds.
In the capital Kabul, at least 11 people were wounded when shots were fired into a crowd of demonstrators trying to march on the city centre to protest the burning of copies of the Koran by NATO troops.
Angry protests spread in Afghanistan over Koran burning
Hundreds of angry Afghans took to the streets in the capital Kabul and the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday as protests spread over the burning of the Koran by NATO troops.
About 500 protesters threw stones at a US military base on Jalalabad road in Kabul, while in the eastern city more than 1,000 demonstrators blocked the highway shouting "Death to Americans, Death to Obama", AFP journalists said.
Protests erupted on Monday when the blasphemy was committed at the Bagram military base, the site of a US supermax security prison.
The locals tried to prevent the blasphemy, but the US troops opened fire and killed two of the protesters.
Although the US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has apologized to the Afghans for the incident, this has failed to defuse the situation
Panetta, Allen apologize for Koran burning
The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, General John Allen, have apologized to the Afghans for the burning of several copies of the Koran by US soldiers at the Bagram military base near Kabul.
This came in a statement by the US Armed Forces’ press service. Several copies of the Koran were burnt Monday at the Bagram base, which is the site of a US supermax security prison.
When locals tried to prevent the blasphemy, the US troops opened fire and killed two Afghan civilians. In the past, too, incidents involving the Koran often sparked off violence in Afghanistan.
AFP, RIAN, The Voice of Russia
