Two more Americans killed in Kabul as Koran-burning protests rage on

Two members of the U.S. military were shot dead on Saturday inside the heavily barricaded Interior Ministry in the centre of the Afghan capital, Afghan security sources said, as anti-Western protests raged for a fifth day across the country.

It was not immediately clear who killed the Americans, said one Afghan security source. They were gunned down during a scuffle, another source said.

“American and Afghan troops were present at the time of the shootout, but we are unsure who killed them,” a senior Afghan security source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were aware of “an accident” in central Kabul, but declined to give more details.