Afghan crisis: Scores dead after Taliban firing, stampede at I-Day rally

In Asadabad, capital of the eastern province of Kunar, several people were killed during a rally, but it was not clear if casualties resulted from Taliban firing or from a stampede that it triggered

Flag-waving protesters took to the streets of more Afghan cities on Thursday as popular opposition to the Taliban spread, and a witness said several people were killed when the militants fired on a crowd in Asadabad in the east.
 
“Our flag, our identity,” a crowd of men and women waving black, red and green national flags shouted in the capital Kabul, a video clip posted on social media showed, on the day Afgha­nistan celebrates independence from British control in 1919. A witness reported gunshots fired near the rally, but they appeared to be armed Taliban shooting in the air.