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Jan 9, 2010
Italians evacuate migrants
<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> ROME - ITALIAN authorities sent in extra police and evacuated migrants on Saturday from a southern Italian town after residents violently attacked African farm workers protesting against their conditions. The clashes which began late Thursday left 67 people injured in the Calabrian town of Rosarno, latest reports said, but calm was generally restored Saturday, with barricades erected by locals dismantled and shops open. Police said the 18 injured included 31 foreigners, the latest of whom was fired at with a shotgun on Saturday, 19 policemen and 17 locals. Nine buses with police escorts evacuated 320 immigrants early Saturday to a reception centre at Crotone, some 170 kilometres from Rosarno, as locals applauded. Police said some 100 more had fled the town on their own and preparations were going ahead to move another 300 out to centres elsewhere in southern Italy. Police chief Antonio Managnelli announced late Friday the despatch of reinforcements - which press reports said would number more than 200 officers - to Rosarno. The violence broke out Thursday when hundreds of immigrants, most of them Africans employed illegally as farm labourers, demonstrated after some of them had been shot at with air rifles, ANSA said. Demonstrators set fire to cars and smashed windscreens before police intervened, leading to a scuffle that left several of the demonstrators wounded, ANSA said. -- AFP
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Jan 9, 2010
Italians evacuate migrants
<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> ROME - ITALIAN authorities sent in extra police and evacuated migrants on Saturday from a southern Italian town after residents violently attacked African farm workers protesting against their conditions. The clashes which began late Thursday left 67 people injured in the Calabrian town of Rosarno, latest reports said, but calm was generally restored Saturday, with barricades erected by locals dismantled and shops open. Police said the 18 injured included 31 foreigners, the latest of whom was fired at with a shotgun on Saturday, 19 policemen and 17 locals. Nine buses with police escorts evacuated 320 immigrants early Saturday to a reception centre at Crotone, some 170 kilometres from Rosarno, as locals applauded. Police said some 100 more had fled the town on their own and preparations were going ahead to move another 300 out to centres elsewhere in southern Italy. Police chief Antonio Managnelli announced late Friday the despatch of reinforcements - which press reports said would number more than 200 officers - to Rosarno. The violence broke out Thursday when hundreds of immigrants, most of them Africans employed illegally as farm labourers, demonstrated after some of them had been shot at with air rifles, ANSA said. Demonstrators set fire to cars and smashed windscreens before police intervened, leading to a scuffle that left several of the demonstrators wounded, ANSA said. -- AFP
