Afghans continue fifth day protests, 3 dead

At least three demonstrators were killed Saturday, medical sources said, as protesters tried to storm a UN compound in northern Afghanistan in a fifth day of violence over Koran burning.Sahad Mokhtar, head of the public health department in Kunduz, said: The report we have so far from hospitals is three killed, 47 wounded in todays demonstrations.An AFP correspondent at the UN complex in the city saw police firing at protesters to try to stop them entering the premises, while demonstrators burned tyres and traffic booths across Kunduz.Denise Jeanmonod, a spokeswoman for UNAMA, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, confirmed the incident, saying that the organisation was assessing the situation at the scene.But she refused to give further details for the security of staff at the compound, or to say how many people were there.Protesters in eastern Afghanistan threw rocks at police and tried to storm the governors house in Laghman province.At least 25 people have been killed and hundreds wounded since Wednesday, when it first emerged that Qurans and religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at the main U.S. baseBagram Air Field. American officials apologized and said it was a terrible mistake, but the incident has sent thousands to the streets in this deeply religious country.