At least 10 foreign employees of the UN in Afghanistan were killed on Friday in an attack by protesters, dissatisfied by the burning of Koran in the US, police announced quoted by AFP. The UN spokesperson at Kabul Don McNorton said quoted by AFP that he knows of a fire that broke at the UN HQ at Mazar I Sharif and that they are still investigating.
UPDATE There were 11 people killed, general Mohammad Daud Daud declared for AFP of which three UN foreign employees, 5 security guards and 3 protesters.
National police forces commander Daud Daud said that five UN guards and another two foreign employees were killed and another one seriously injured. A spokesperson of the Balkh province explained that initially protesters were peaceful and the reason for their turning violent is unknown.
American pastor Terry Jones burnt on March 21st a copy of the Koran following a process which declared that holy Muslim book guilty and was therefore executed. The project stirred up a huge international scandal. The event was followed by condemnations of tens of chiefs of state and of Pope Benedict of XVI and was catalogued as a gross provocation.
However, on March 21st, after declaring that the Muslim people did not defend their holy book, the pastor burnt the Koran in Florida.
Romanian, Norwegian and Swedish citizens were among the UN employees killed today, a police source said quoted by Reuters. Two of the victims were decapitated.
7 PM Afghan insurgents used the protest as a pretext to attack the UN, the province governor declared quoted by UN
7:07 PM At least 7 UN employees were killed. 5 Afghan protesters were also killed and another 20 injured in the violence.
7:30 PM Romania’s Foreign Affairs ministry contacted local Afghan authorities in Mazar I Sharif to check the hypothesis that
