UN compound stormed in Mazar-i-Sharif
Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan UNAMA
7 killed
A crowd of around three thousand people protesting the burning of a Koran in the United States stormed a UNAMA operations centre in Mazar-i-Sharif. Three international UN staff and four Nepalese guards were killed, several of them with weapons taken from the guards. It remains the deadliest attack on UN personnel ever recorded in Afghanistan.
The people involved
JD
Joakim Dungel
Killed Swedish
FM
Filaret Motco
Killed Romanian
SS
Siri Skare
Killed Norwegian
A lieutenant colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the first female military pilot in Norway.
DP
Dil Prasad Gurung
Killed Nepalese
CL
Chhabi Lal Purja Pun
Killed Nepalese
NB
Narayan Bahadur Thapa Magar
Killed Nepalese
MB
Min Bahadur Thapa
Killed Nepalese