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Hundreds of people have taken to Afghanistan's streets in fresh protests against a Quran burning in the United States.
At least one person was killed and 16 others injured in Sunday's protests, local officials said.
Demonstrations occurred in the main southern city of Kandahar as well as Jalalabad, in the east, officials said.
The protest in Jalalabad city was peaceful, with hundreds of people blocking a main highway for three hours.
They were shouting for US troops to leave and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama before dispersing, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
The Taliban said in a statement emailed to media outlets that the US and other Western countries have wrongly excused the burning a Quran by the pastor of a Florida church on March 20 as freedom of speech and that Afghans cannot accept this un-Islamic act.
Obama reaction
Meanwhile, Barack Obama, the US president, called the killings "outrageous".
"The desecration of any holy text, including the Quran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," Obama said in a statement on Saturday.
"However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity."
Violent protests broke out on Friday and continued on Saturday over the actions of Terry Jones, the preacher who supervised the burning of the Quran in front of about 50 people at a church in Florida on March 20.
Unrepentant
In an interview with Reuters on Saturday, Jones was unrepentant and defiantly vowed to lead an anti-Islam protest outside the biggest mosque in the US later this month.
Government officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan have called for US authorities to arrest Jones. However, his public criticism of Islam and desecration of the Noble Quran are allowed under US laws protecting "free speech".
PHOTO CAPTION
Afghan protestors burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011.
Al-Jazeera
