Afghan Mob Kills Seven Foreign UN Staff

(Reuters) An angry mob that killed three UN civilian staff and four Ghurkha security guards in north Afghanistan ripped out the door of a bunker where several had taken shelter, and slit the throat of one man who survived a bullet, the top UN envoy in the country, Staffan de Mistura, said on Saturday. Some 3,000 demonstrators, enraged by the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian in the U.S., overran the compound.


2011-04-04 00:00:00

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