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Eight people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests continue against the burning of the Quran by a controversial US pastor.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Kandahar city on Saturday, a day after a deadly attack on UN staff.
Protesters attacked the police and set shops ablaze. About 70 people were injured.
Abdul Qayoum Pukhla, a senior doctor at Kandahar's Mirwais hospital, said victims suffering from bullet injuries and wounds caused by rocks had been admitted to the hospital.
UN office attacked
A day earlier, after Friday prayers ended, protesters overwhelmed security guards at the UN office in the usually peaceful northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. They burned parts of the compound and climbed blast walls to topple a guard tower.
Afghan officials said at least 11 people were killed, including seven UN staff.
Demonstrators had gathered to protest over reports that an evangelical pastor last month burned a copy of the Noble Quran in the US.
The Taliban said they had no role in Friday's assault on the UN office, after both the provincial governor and a senior UN official suggested provocateurs among the crowd had sparked or led the attack.
Also on Saturday, fighters attacked a coalition base in Kabul with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but were killed either when they detonated their explosives or by Afghan or coalition fire outside the entrance, NATO and police said.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Kabul, said the Taliban had claimed responsibility for that attack.
Noble Quran burned
Terry Jones, an American pastor, created a storm of controversy after he announced that he would burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks last year. Under pressure from political leaders, Jones "suspended" the event.
However, on March 20, Jones oversaw the burning of a copy of the Quran by another pastor, Wayne Sapp.
Many Afghans only found out about it when Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, condemned the desecration four days later.
Sapp called the deaths in Mazar-i-Sharif "tragic," but said he did not regret the actions of his church.
"I in no way feel like our church is responsible for what happened," he said.
Protests also broke out on Friday in Kabul and Herat in western Afghanistan.
PHOTO CAPTION
Smoke billows from the UN headquarters after protesters attacked the compound in Mazar-i-Sharif on April 1.
Al-Jazeera
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