Several people were killed on Thursday in the Afghan city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the national flag at an Independence Day rally, a witness said.
It was not clear if the casualties came from the firing or from a stampede it triggered, witness Mohammed Salim said from the eastern city, the capital of Kunar province.
A Taliban spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Kabul bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)
