Nine killed over Koran burning | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

At least nine demonstrators were shot dead and dozens wounded Wednesday in violent protests across Afghanistan over the burning of the Koran at a US-run military base, officials said.

The Afghan interior ministry blamed at least one of the deaths on ``foreign guards of Camp Phoenix``, a US military base in eastern Kabul attacked by protesters, but most were attributed by local officials to clashes with police.

The ministry said it would investigate all the deaths, blaming some of them on ``security guards'' at unnamed foreign bases. A spokesman said it was not known whether the guards were Afghans or foreigners.