Three more die in cartoon protests

MUSLIM protests against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed claimed three more lives yesterday when Afghan police fired at a crowd trying to storm a US military base.

The latest deaths in the town of Qalat brought the total number of Afghans killed in protests this week to 10. Twenty more were injured in yesterday’s clash.

Tens of thousands of Muslims have demonstrated in the Middle East, Asia and Africa over the cartoons, first published in Denmark.