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FIFA World Cup: Police fire tear gas at protesters

Updated on: 13 June,2014 08:17 AM IST  | 
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Military police in Sao Paulo clashed with masked anti-World Cup protesters yesterday hours before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the tournament's opening match

FIFA World Cup: Police fire tear gas at protesters

An anti-World Cup protester in Sao Paulo yesterday. Pic/AFP

Sao Paulo: Military police in Sao Paulo clashed with masked anti-World Cup protesters yesterday hours before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the tournament's opening match.

An anti-World Cup protester in Sao Paulo yesterday. Pic/AFP
An anti-World Cup protester in Sao Paulo yesterday. Pic/AFP 


Around 100 activists clad in the black masks and scarves of radical protest movement Black Bloc tore down street signs and traffic lights and set fire to them to block off a central street, prompting police to fire rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse them.


The clashes came after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up an earlier, smaller protest near a Sao Paulo subway station.


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