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 had witnessed the entire incident,
from the point when a U.S. military lorry 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.
The U.S. military says small arms fire was heard coming from the crowd, and the crowd
overpowered a police line formed to protect the convoy as they tended to injured and
collected the damaged vehicle before withdrawing.
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