KABUL – A demonstration in Kabul over nixed plans by a Florida pastor to burn Korans turned violent Wednesday morning as police officers and demonstrators exchanged gunfire, Afghan officials said.
At least 37 police officers and eight Afghans were wounded as police were assaulted with rocks and bullets when they moved in on demonstrators in a poor southwest Kabul neighborhood about 7:30 a.m., according to Mohamed Zahir, the chief of the Kabul police criminal investigations division.
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