Chinese Police Fire Into Crowd Of Protesting Monks And Nuns

Chinese Police Fire Into Crowd Of Protesting Monks And Nuns

Hundreds of monks, nuns and local Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China to demand the return of the Dalai Lama have been turned back by paramilitary police who opened fire to disperse the crowd.

Local residents of Luhuo said two people - a monk and a farmer - appeared to have been shot dead and about a dozen were wounded in the latest violence to rock Tibetan areas of China.

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