Armed protesters who barged into governor's office prompted police to open fire. FMTNews Afghanistan
A man receives free bread from the municipality during lockdown in Kabul last Monday.
Some of those who had queued up to receive aid staged a protest against what they saw as “unjust distribution of food items to poor families”, Abdul Rahman Akshan, the deputy head of Ghor’s provincial council told AFP. He said the protesters also beat security personnel, and an investigation into the incident was underway.
But the chief of the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission Shaharzad Akbar wrote on Twitter that there were “worrying reports of police firing at protesters in Ghor”.
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