Afghan protesters gather outside US embassy in Kabul

KABUL, May 29: Several dozen Afghan protesters forced their way past a police cordon guarding the road to the heavily fortified US embassy in Kabul today and threw stones at vehicles carrying foreigners, a Reuters journalist said.

Police had been holding back several hundred demonstrators at the main intersection leading to the embassy as unrest grew in the city after a U S military convoy was involved in a fatal traffic accident earlier in the day and several people were killed in shooting to quell a subsequent riot.

''Embassy staff have been moved to a secure location. It is a regular procedure during any unrest in the city,'' U S embassy spokesman Chris Harris told Reuters. Harris said he did not have any information on the firing outside the U S mission.

REUTERS