US troops open fire on Afghan crowd: 3 killed
Reuters, Kabul
US troops fired into a crowd of stone-throwing rioters, killing at least three Afghans, as their convoy left the scene of an accident that triggered anti-American riots, Kabul's chief of highway police said yesterday. General Amanullah Gozar told Reuters he had witnessed Monday's incident, from the point when a US military truck ran out of control down a hill, crashing into vehicles and killing at least five people, to the clashes afterwards, and when US troops opened fire. "As a result of their firing, one young boy and two other people were killed," Gozar said. The US military says small arms fire was heard coming from the crowd, and the crowd overpowered a police line formed to protect the convoy as they tended to injured and collected the damaged vehicle before withdrawing.
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