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Afghanistan: 'Ten dead' at protest over Nato raid | Afghanistan: 'Ten dead' at protest over Nato raid |
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At least 10 people have been killed in northern Afghanistan during a protest against an overnight raid by Nato and Afghan forces, hospital sources have told the BBC. | At least 10 people have been killed in northern Afghanistan during a protest against an overnight raid by Nato and Afghan forces, hospital sources have told the BBC. |
About 40 demonstrators were injured in the clashes in the city of Taloqan. | |
Security officials said some of the demonstrators were armed. | |
They were protesting against the raid in which four people - who Nato said were insurgents - were killed. | |
An official in the city said that the Afghan National Army and a rapid reaction force had been deployed in the city and the situation was now mostly under control. | |
The official said that some of the demonstrators were armed and had destroyed public and private property. He said reinforcements had been called into Taloqan from neighbouring Kunduz province. | |
The violence appears to have begun when protesters angered over the night-time raid placed the bodies of those killed in the main square of Taloqan. | |
Unpopular raids | |
They chanted slogans against the US and President Hamid Karzai and threw stones against a German military base and a police office. | |
The Nato-led mission says that two women and two men were killed in the night raid. It said that the women were armed, one with an assault rifle, the other with a pistol. | |
But the demonstrators insist that all four were civilians. | |
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says that female insurgents are rare, but not unheard of. | |
Our correspondent says that night raids are deeply unpopular, but have been effective at finding and killing insurgent commanders. | |
They form a key part of Nato's counter-insurgency strategy - but many Afghans, including President Karzai - have said they must end. | |
A few days ago the accidental killing by foreign troops of a 15-year-old boy led to a demonstration in Nagahar province. There one protester was killed and five wounded. |