Posted 06 February 2006 @ 18:13
SURABAYA, 06 February 2006 - Police fired warning shots outside the US consulate here to disperse protesters who earlier smashed windows at the Danish consulate, an Agence France-Presse photographer said. About 200 members of the hardline Front of the Defenders of Islam (FPI) protested cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed at the building that houses the Danish consulate before the group moved to the US mission.
Some 30 armed police took away two of the protesters who tried to remove the US consulate's plaque 'and the mob went wild, shoving police, who fired a volley of about 20 shots into the air to disperse them,' the photographer said.
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