The Taliban wounded more than a dozen people and killed at least three on Wednesday following a violent protest dispersal maneuver, ending a rare display of dissent, according to health officials in Afghanistan.

Residents stormed the streets of Jalalabad, a city located in the country’s Nangarhar province, and tore down Taliban flags, replacing them with the national flag of Afghanistan one day before the country’s independence day commemorating the end of British rule in 1919.

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