US troops shot into crowd, killed 3 Afghans: police

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. troops fired into a crowd of
hundreds of stone-throwing rioters, killing at least three
Afghans, as their convoy left the scene of an accident that
triggered Monday’s anti-American riots, Kabul’s chief of
highway police said.

General Amanullah Gozar told Reuters on Thursday he
witnessed the entire incident, from the point when a U.S.
military truck ran out of control down a hill, crashing into
vehicles and killing at least five people, to the clashes
afterwards, when U.S. troops opened fire.

“As a result of their firing, one young boy and two other
people were killed,” Gozar said.