17 injured as violence breaks at capital city's railway station

Описание: (2 Nov 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Haedo train station on outskirts of Buenos Aires
2. Wreckage of police car
3. Train wreckages
4. People looking at burnt trains
5. People trying to take money from ticket machine
6. Commuters leaving Haedo station
7. Man throwing stones at train
8. Policemen
9. Fire on train
10. Commuters leaving station
11. Train on fire
12. People running away from burning train
13. Helicopter flying over station
14. Thick smoke rising from train
15. People throwing stones at journalists
16. Thick, black smoke and flames coming out of train
17. Pan from station building to trains on fire
18. Various of train on fire
19. People looking at train on fire
20. Train on fire
21. Man on bicycle watching burning trains

STORYLINE

Passengers angered because their train would not leave a suburban station in Buenos Aires started throwing rocks and set several train cars and three police vehicles on fire, leaving 17 people injured, authorities reported.

The frustrated passengers were joined by masked demonstrators and police said 60 people were detained.

The incident began at approximately 8:30 a.m. local time (1130 GMT) when officials announced to nearly 2,000 travellers waiting in a delayed train in Haedo, about nine miles (15 kilometres) west of the capital city, that the train would not be leaving the station due to technical problems.

Passengers reacted by hurling rocks at the train and breaking windows while police officers attempted to control the crowd by shooting rubber bullets.

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