At least 20 people were killed and several dozen others injured in violent protests that erupted in Jalalabad in east Afghanistan over the burning of a Quran by a radical Christian preacher in the United States, a source in the country’s security forces said on Sunday.
The actions of Christian preacher Terry Jones, who supervised the burning of the Quran at a church in Florida on March 20, have outraged Muslims worldwide and triggered riots in Afghanistan where protesters stormed a UN compound in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday, killing seven UN foreign staff.
On Saturday, at least 10 people were killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on a second day of riots over the desecration of Islam’s holy book.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called “o…