Villagers Riot in China, 50 Police Said Injured

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Benjamin Kang Lim

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of villagers

rioted in eastern China injuring dozens of police after two of about 200 elderly women

protesting against factory pollution died during efforts to disperse them,

residents and officials said on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rioting in the

wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang on Sunday followed violent anti-Japanese protests in China's capital Beijing and the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen over the

weekend.

It was the latest in a

string of outbreaks of rural violence as the world's most populous nation

struggles with disgruntlement over a widening wealth gap and widespread

corruption.

More than 50 police were

injured and rushed to hospital, with five listed in critical condition, a

doctor told Reuters. About four residents of the village of Huankantou, in Huangtianfan township,

were injured.

Police tried to disperse

about 200 elderly women, who had kept a 24-hour vigil at sheds and a roadblock

outside an industrial park housing about 13 chemical factories for the last two

weeks, villagers and local officials said by telephone.

Two of the women were

killed, two villagers said. " They were run over by police cars, " one

said.

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