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80 cops hurt in China riots

BEIJING: Up to 80 police and other officials were injured when thousands of farmers rioted in eastern China after an elderly protestor was allegedly run over and killed by a police car, witnesses said on Monday.

Officers armed with clubs and shields used teargas to break up a rally by elderly women Sunday against the construction of a chemical factory in Huashui Township, Dongyang city in Zhejiang province.

During the melee at least one of the women was run over and killed, sparking large angry crowds to return to the scene later in the day when the protest turned violent, said a worker on the nearby Huangtianfan Industrial estate.

"The crowd was very angry — they overturned police vehicles and broke their windscreens. Nearly the whole village turned up to protest," she said, declining to be named. A nurse at the Dongyang City People’s Hospital said between 70 and 80 people, mostly police and officials, were treated for injuries on Sunday. About 30 of them remained hospitalised, she said.


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