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Summary As many as 2,000 Afghans on Tuesday massed outside Bagram Airbase to protest against the incident.
According to officials shots were fired into a crowd of anti-US demonstrators trying to march on the centre of the capital Kabul Wednesday, killing at least one and wounding more than 20 people.Hundreds of Afghan protesters threw stones at police and security forces fired shots in the air in a second day of demonstrations after copies of the Quran, were burned at a major NATO airbase.Protesters shouted Death to America and Death to (President Hamid) Karzai in demonstrations on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul, while separate protests were also underway in the eastern city of Jalalabad.As many as 2,000 Afghans on Tuesday massed outside several gates to Bagram Airbase, the main centre for NATO-led forces just north of Kabul, after local laborers found charred remains of copies of the Quran as they collected rubbish, prompting an apology from the White House and NATO.
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