Afghan anti-US protest turns violent

Source: PressTV
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A crowd of hundreds block a highway in central Afghanistan and have torched five NATO fuel tankers to protest the killing of three people by US-led forces.

US and Afghan troops raided a house in Puli Alam, capital of Lugar Province south of Kabul, killing three men and arresting two others on Saturday. This is while the Afghans assert the occupants of the house were innocent civilians.

Early Sunday, hundreds of local residents blocked the main highway linking the capital city to the southeastern provinces, Din Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for the provincial governor, told a Press TV correspondent.

"The protestors burned five tankers that were transporting fuel to NATO forces in the province," he said, adding that they were dispersed by police.

Demonstrators chanted anti-US and anti-government slogans, asking for an independent investigation into the killings.

"Most of the protesters are relatives of the three dead men," Darwish said, adding that the provincial governor had assigned a team to investigate the incident.

The protest came two days after another demonstration in the same area by residents slamming the US forces for killing five civilians during a raid on Thursday.