Front of the Qur'an Violent protests over the burning of a by a US church spread on Saturday to the southern Afghanistan city of  , a day after an angry mob attacked a United Nations compound at in northern Afghanistan, killing seven UN workers and four Afghan protesters. Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesperson for the governor of  , said that Afghan police arrested 17 people, seven of whom were armed and are suspects in the shooting of protesters. He blamed Taliban insurgents and their supporters for infiltrating the demonstration. A Taliban spokesperson,  , denied that the Taliban was responsible for any deaths during Saturday's violence: "It was the Afghan police that killed the innocent people of Kandahar while they were expressing their feeling against the burning of holy Quran in Florida."
Front of the Qur'an Violent protests over the burning of a by a US church spread on Saturday to the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar , a day after an angry mob attacked a United Nations compound at in northern Afghanistan, killing seven UN workers and four Afghan protesters. Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesperson for the governor of Kandahar province , said that Afghan police arrested 17 people, seven of whom were armed and are suspects in the shooting of protesters. He blamed Taliban insurgents and their supporters for infiltrating the demonstration. A Taliban spokesperson, Zabiullah Mojahed , denied that the Taliban was responsible for any deaths during Saturday's violence: "It was the Afghan police that killed the innocent people of Kandahar while they were expressing their feeling against the burning of holy Quran in Florida."
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Zabiullah Mojahed