Police opened fire on several thousand students protesting in the Afghan capital against the authorities' handling of an earlier university riot, in which at least one student was killed. AFP reported. The protests marked the first major demonstration in the city since it was liberated from the hardline Taliban regime almost exactly one year ago by a US-led military campaign. Crowds shouting "death to the student-killers" charged riot police armed with rifles and batons and the police turned water cannons on them. The students retaliated with stones, prompting police to open fire initially in the air and then into the crowds.

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