Hundreds of angry protesters staged a protest Friday in eastern Afghanistan, after NATO forces killed a dozen of civilians during an overnight raid.
Around 300 protesters in the Surkh Rod district of Nangahar province chanted "Death to Americans, Shairzai (the provincial governor) and (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai" as they threw stones at the district administration offices, where the raid took place.
An official who did not want to be named said 11 people had been killed during the raid by NATO forces, including civilians.
He added that two people had been injured and another two were detained by the NATO forces.
The protesters said 12 people, all of them civilians and including farmers, were killed during the raid.
Provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said Afghan and NATO occupation forces had arrived at a village by helicopter on Thursday night and carried out an attack against Taliban militants.
"An operation was carried out by the joint forces but at this stage we don't know how many people were killed and if they are all Taliban or there were any civilians among them," Abdulzai said.
Local authorities prevented the protesters from marching to the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
[Source: Al-Manar TV]
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