Afghan deaths in UN attack

01/04/11 17:33 CET

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In Afghanistan at least eight people have been killed in an attack on a United Nations compound.

The violence in Mazar-i-Sharif erupted as hundreds demonstrated over the burning of the Koran by a pastor in a United States church last month.

Afghan police fired into the air in a bid to disperse the protesters who were chanting, “Death to the USA, Death to Israel” as they gathered for Friday prayers.

A United Nations spokesman in Kabul confirmed that there had been deaths at the mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif but declined to give further details.

Its understood foreign workers are among those who have been killed while reports indicate two were be-headed.

And in Kabul about 200 hundred anti US demonstrators protested outside the American embassy.

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