The protesters took to the streets in the capital Kabul, the western city of Herat and the eastern city of Jalalabad for a second day of the protests on Wednesday after US-led troops at the Bagram Airbase burned a large number of Islamic religious materials which included copies of the Holy Qur’an.
The demonstrators threw stones at the US military base along the Jalalabad road while chanting slogans against the United States and President Barack Obama.
The Afghan police reportedly fired shots into the air to disperse the protests in some parts of Afghanistan.
The angry Afghans on Tuesday held protest rallies in Kabul as well as outside the US Bagram Airbase and demanded the trial of the perpetrators of the desecrating act.
The US commander in the war-torn country and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have apologized to the Afghans over the desecration of the Holy Qur’an.
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