Seven dead in attack on UN in Afghanistan

247, with international agencies – The savage rule of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' was once again put into practice by Afghan radicals – and disproportionately so – this Friday, April 1st. Seven employees of the United Nations (UN) headquarters in the city of Mazari Sharif, in the north of the country, were killed during an attack on the organization's facilities. The alleged motive for provoking the conflict was that a copy of the Quran, the Muslim bible, had been burned on March 20th in a church in Florida, in the United States. Five Afghan protesters also died. Among the UN dead, three were UN workers in Asia and four were security guards from the local office. The march against the headquarters had been called for on Wednesday, during a local religious service. There were 20 injured. Among the dead is a Swedish citizen, Joakim Dungel, 33 years old. The other nationalities have not yet been released. The governor of North Balkh province, Ata Mohammad, said in an interview that Afghan insurgents used the protest against the burning of the book considered sacred to deliberately attack the UN office in the region.