Likatonia

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Brutal Police Crackdown, rubber ammunition and tear gas used : 5 dead and 2,403 injured.

Early today the police were instructed to mantain order and prevent damage to shops and homes, however many protesters fuelled with anger threw Molotov cocktails and petrol bombs injuring 26 policemen. According to the police, this warranted sufficient plausibility to use tear gas and rubber ammunition in order to disperse the protests. However, this caused many injuries and 5 people were pronounced dead at the scene, who were all of pension age and likely had nothing to do with the protest violence. Mr Mendelev, the leader of the SCP sent his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and vowed a 'political response'. Despite these harrowing events, there has been no statement by the government as of yet and many fear the military could be used to crackdown on future protests. The protests do not seem to be subsiding and Freya Elliott seems frozen in her chair. 


-The Likatonian Chronicle-