Four killed, 71 hurt in Afghan protests

Four people were killed and at least 71 injured when police opened fire on hundreds of student protestors as they rampaged through an Afghan city.

Protesting over the alleged desecration of Islam’s holy book by US military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, the students shouted “Death to America”, as demonstrators smashed car and shop windows and stoned a passing convoy of American soldiers in the city of Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border. It was the biggest outpouring of anti-American sentiment since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.