Two Afghans have been killed at a rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad, thought to be the first deaths in more than a week of protests. Police in the eastern city of Mihtarlam fired on demonstrators after a police station came under attack, a government spokesman said. The deaths follows protests by Muslims around the world, and attacks against Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon. Hundreds of people took part in the morning demonstration in Afghanistan's Laghman province, in a second day of protests in the city. One person died at the scene, and another died in hospital in the nearby city of Jalalabad. Three people are thought to have been injured. Demonstrators shouted "death to Denmark" and "death to France", and called for the embassies of both the countries to be shut, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Afghanistan says. "They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC. "They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said. Thousands of people have also been demonstrating across Afghanistan. Hundreds protested in Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif, while 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Danish embassy in the capital, Kabul.