(1 May 1996) T/I: 10:43:41
Two people were shot dead and 16 others, including two policemen, were wounded in violence which marred May Day demonstrations in Instabul on Wednesday (1/5), police said. Police said disturbances broke out after a group of demonstrators
refused to be searched, and witnesses said that police opened fire to disperse them. Members of a left wing group, the Turkish People's Liberation Party, used stones and sticks as they clashed with police. Several shops were damaged during the incidents.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY 1 MAY 96
Floral Mayday sign, Demonstrators from the Turkish People's Liberation Party (THKPC) wearing red masks
Red and Yellow THKPC flags
WS of demonstration
CU woman with baby
Demonstrators clashing with police using sticks and stones
Steel-helmeted riot police squad attacking the demonstrators
wounded policeman being tended by two colleagues
fatally wounded demonstrator being taken to hospital in a car
shattered windows of a bank near the demonstration site
various of broken glass
a piece of bloody cloth on the street
police helicopter in the sky
armoured police vehicles with riot police
ambulance speeding off to hospital carrying a wounded demonstrator
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