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    Armenia police clash with protesters, at least one dead

    Reuters, UK
    March 1 2008

    YEREVAN (Reuters) - At least one person died and many others were
    injured on Saturday evening after Armenian police fired tracer
    bullets to break up opposition protests in the capital, an opposition
    demonstrator said.

    "He was killed by a tracer bullet which must have ricocheted as
    police were shooting in the air to disperse an opposition rally being
    held nearby," the opposition activist told Reuters on condition of
    anonymity. "We know of many wounded people."

    "The opposition is still controlling the square near the mayor's
    office," he added. He said there are Italian, French and Russian
    embassies nearby. "The man who was killed died near the Russian
    legation."

    (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov in Moscow, writing by Michael Stott in
    Moscow; editing by Keith Weir)
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