One soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and two local Afghans were killed as a protest over a U.S. soldier's shooting Koran in Iraq turned violent in western Afghanistan Thursday, the ISAF said.
One ISAF soldier, 10 Afghan National Police and seven local nationals were also wounded during the violent demonstration at an airfield in Chaghcharan town, the capital of Ghor province, the NATO-led military said in a statement.
It said the local nationals were killed or wounded by Afghan National Police after the protest turned violent when rocks were thrown and tents set on fire.
The ISAF did not release the nationalities of the killed and wounded soldiers, quoting a policy.
Gunfire erupted in Chaghcharan Thursday afternoon as some 1,000 protesters, chanting anti-U.S. and anti-West slogans, were trying to storm an ISAF military base.
An Iraq-based U.S. soldier was punished and sent home after he was found using the Koran for target practice earlier this month.
Source:Xinhua
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