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Police fired guns and sprayed teargas to disperse anti-coup demonstrators who were blocking tracks at a railway station in Myanmar’s second-largest city Wednesday, as military junta opponents clogged streets with vehicles in a widening protest movement vying for the support of civil servants.
Police in Mandalay fired about 40 shots toward anti-military protesters, now in their 12th day of protests against the Feb. 1 military takeover, as demonstrators occupied train tracks near employee housing at the city’s central railway station.
“First there were three, and then five shots, and then six shots, followed by several rounds at once,” said the local resident who declined to be identified for security reasons as he described the shooting.