Hundreds of Afghans protested on Saturday against the accidental killing of a teenage boy by Nato-led forces in a volatile eastern province, and the district governor said one man was shot dead as police fired at the crowd after it turned violent. District governor Abdul Khaliq Mahroof told Reuters demonstrators had poured into the streets in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province to denounce the overnight killing of a 15-year-old boy by Afghan and foreign troops.
The mistaken killing of civilians by foreign troops is a major source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers, and complicates efforts to win support from ordinary Afghans for the war against the Taliban. "It all started with hundreds of demonstrators throwing stones and later firing weapons," Mahroof said, adding that the protest had now ended.
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