Paraguayan cops fire rubber bullets at flood victims
Paraguayan cops fire rubber bullets at flood victims
Published December 18, 2015/
EFE
Paraguayan riot police fired rubber bullets into a crowd of flood victims to break up their protest after they, among some 50,000 Asuncion residents, were driven from their homes by the overflowing Paraguay river.
The riot police rushed at them in front of the SEN emergency management agency, where residents of the Bañados, the two neighborhoods hit hardest by the overflowing river, gathered to demand the resignation of agency chief Joaquin Roa.
Some 30 police officers twice charged at the crowd firing rubber bullets, while a tanker truck blasted the protesters with water, some of whom responded by throwing rocks at the cops.
Three people showed EFE their injuries caused by the rubber bullets before they went to be treated by paramedics.
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(The original story source is Spain's E.F.E.)