Afghanistan: 12 Killed at UN Headquarters By Protesters of "Qur'an Burning" (Najafizada/Nordland)
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 7:18
UPDATE 0800 GMT: Protests in Kandahar over Qur'an-burning have turned violent this morning, with shooting and vehicles set on fire. There are reports of seven people killed and 45 injured.
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Stirred up by three angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters on Friday overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.
The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — four Nepalese guards and three Europeans from Romania, Sweden and Norway — according to United Nations officials in New York. One was a woman. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also killed.