At least 12 people have been killed in northern Afghanistan during a protest against a NATO-led raid, hospital sources have told the BBC. The clashes with security forces in the city of Taloqan left 80 others injured. Some 2,000 demonstrators, some of them armed, took part. They looted shops and tried to attack a German army base. Four people, two of them women, were killed in the NATO-led raid. NATO said they were insurgents. Protesters and local police say all were civilians.
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