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Anti-Islam film protests

2 killed in Pak, violence spreads to Kabul, Jakarta

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Posted On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 10:26:54 AM

Peshawar: Two protesters died on Monday as rallies in Pakistan over an anti- Islam film intensified, with thousands taking to the streets, burning US flags and an effigy of President Barack Obama.

Pakistani police use a water cannon to disperse protesters in Karachi

On Monday, protests also turned violent for the first time in Afghanistan and in Indonesia, as hundreds of angry men clashed with police, hurling stones and shouting "Death to America".

The outbreaks of violence were the latest eruptions of anger over the lowbudget trailer made in the US and aired on YouTube that has fanned unrest around the world, leaving at least 18 people dead.

In Pakistan, about 800 people demonstrated in the northwestern town of Warai, in Upper Dir district, setting fire to a magistrate's house and the local Press Club before one protester was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.

Another demonstrator died on Monday afternoon after being shot in the head during clashes with police near the US consulate in Karachi on Sunday, a hospital official said. Up to 3,000 university students, teachers and employees marched in Peshawar, chanting anti-US slogans and demanding a ban on the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ movie.
 
Officers baton-charged protesters and fired tear gas to try to disperse them. They also fired live rounds into the air, prompting the demonstrators to return fire, though it was unclear who fired the fatal shots.

In Kabul, over 1,000 Afghans protested, setting police cars and commercial storage containers ablaze on Jalalabad Road. Between 40 to 50 policemen were slightly wounded .
 
Petrol bombs hurled in jakarta
 
In Jakarta, protesters hurled petrol bombs and clashed with police outside the US embassy in the first violent protests in the world's most populous Muslim nation.


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