The Guardian: China: Riots and Gunfire on streets of Lhasa - EU urges China to show restraint - by Tania Branigan and Randeep Ramesh
China: Riots and Gunfire on streets of Lhasa - EU urges China to show restraint - by Tania Branigan and Randeep Ramesh
China was struggling last night to bring Lhasa, Tibet's capital, under control after the fiercest anti-government protests for 20 years led to rioting and gunfire on the streets yesterday. Authorities ordered a curfew and deployed thousands of police officers around the city after a day of turmoil in which eyewitnesses reported hearing automatic gunfire, tanks were seen in the centre and armed police used water cannon and teargas as young Tibetans set security vehicles on fire and stoned Chinese residents.The EU urged China to show restraint.
The Free Tibet campaign said it was told by a witness that three lay people and a monk had died and Students for a Free Tibet (India) claimed police had shot dead a teenage girl after the Chinese government ordered the deployment of 10,000 troops in the city.
