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Myanmar police fire to disperse protesters, leaving woman with what doctors say is fatal gunshot wound to her head
A woman has been shot in the head and is not expected to survive after Myanmar police used force to disperse protests against military rule.
Key points:
- At least 27 people have been arrested in the country’s second-largest city of Mandalay
- The woman in critical condition had a “live bullet” lodged in her that could be seen in an X-ray, a doctor says
- It is unclear if other injured people had ben shot with rubber bullets or live rounds, the doctor says
Police fired guns, mostly into the air, and used water cannon and rubber bullets to try to clear protesters in the capital of Naypyitaw, and four people were taken to hospital with what doctors initially said they believed were wounds caused by rubber bullets.
One of them, a woman, had what was…
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