On This Day... Apr 01, 2011: Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan Beheaded UN workers are among those murdered by a mob enraged over a Quran-burning elsewhere: 12 Killed

Smoke billows from the U.N. compound as Afghans carry a man wounded by security guards when protesters attacked the U.N. headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif on April 1, 2011.

HT RoP : UN staff beheaded in Afghan attack sparked by US pastor's Quran burning (UPDATES). KABUL, Afghanistan — At least seven foreign United Nations workers were killed Friday, two of them reportedly beheaded, in an attack on a U.N. compound in Afghanistan by demonstrators protesting the burning of a Quran by a U.S. pastor.

Five Afghans also reported to be among the dead in Afghanistan's northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The protests were incited by the burning of a Quran in a small Florida church two weeks ago. Evangelical pastor Wayne Sapp help a "trial" for the Muslim holy book, and after the book was found guilty, he set it on fire, the AFP reported.

After word of the burning reached Afghanistan, protests were held in several Afghan cities, Afghanistan's Noor TV channel reported.

In Mazar-e-Sharif — the site of the attack on the U.N. compound — a crowd numbering in the thousands was was stirred into frenzy by a small number of mullahs who cited the incident in Florida. The sermon, delivered to those attending Friday prayers at the city's iconic Blue Mosque, urged for protests calling for punishment of those responsible in the desecration of Islam's most sacred text.

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