Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Hundreds of people had gathered outside the governor’s office in the provincial capital Firozkoh, where a Qatari group was distributing aid.<\/p>\n Some of those who had queued up to receive aid staged a protest against what they saw as “unjust distribution of food items to poor families,” Abdul Rahman Akshan, the deputy head of Ghor’s provincial council told AFP.<\/p>\n He said that many protesters tried to barge into the governor’s office, leading to clashes between them and police present at the site.<\/p>\n Officials blamed the protesters for the ensuing violence that left six people dead.<\/p>\n “The protesters opened fire on the police,” the provincial governor’s spokesman Aref Haber said.<\/p>\n “Four civilians, including an employee of a local radio and two policemen were killed,” he said, adding that 19 people were also wounded.<\/p>\n He said the protesters also beat security personnel, and an investigation into the incident was underway.<\/p>\n The interior ministry confirmed the death toll in a statement, saying “some illegal armed men in the mob attacked the government building”, which prompted police to fire into the air to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh said the attack was “shocking” and announced that the “government was seriously investigating the incident” in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n But the chief of the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission Shaharzad Akbar wrote on Twitter that there were “worrying reports of police firing at protesters in Ghor”.<\/p>\n She said this was “completely unacceptable” and a team from the commission was looking into the incident.<\/p>\n The aid group was distributing food to about 1,000 local families when the violence erupted.<\/p>\n Food drives are a common practice in the country during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n Afghanistan is also battling a growing coronavirus outbreak that has exacerbated problems with food access in the impoverished country.<\/p>\n In recent weeks authorities have distributed bread in Kabul and other parts of the country since the government imposed a lockdown.<\/p>\n Afghanistan’s health ministry has so far reported 4,333 cases of COVID-19 and 115 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two policemen and four other people were killed in central Ghor provinc on Saturday after a deadly clash at a public food donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[2,7,12,9],"tags":[39,691,194],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","category-security","category-social","tag-afghanistan","tag-cronavirus","tag-human-rights"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n