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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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 MPRP building on fire 20.55h Senior officials in the MPRP could (or would) not confirm the location of Prime Minister Bayar. Shortly before the protest turned violent he was in the MPRP building giving a press conference
20.30h Protesters have taken possesion of bottles of a duty free shop
and are throwing the bottles at the building while setting fire to the
carton boxes. Smoke keeps coming from the building.
Reportedly thousands of people are staging a violent protest
Protesters have set fire on the MPRP building in Mongolia s capital
Ulaanbaatar. Fire trucks are trying to get near the site. Military a nd
police are joining forces to control the crowd. Eagle TV shows images
of smoke coming from the MPRP building and protesters trying to enter.
Around 19.30 fire was coming from the windows at the ground floor, but
the fire brigade seens to have controlled.
In the meantime protesters look for the confrontation. Police men are
shooting at the crowd with what seem to be rubber bullets.
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