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Video: Honduras protesters' bus tires shot

Jul 3, 2009
 
Story Timeline:  147 days

Video shows line of buses stopped on road in Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- Honduran soldiers shot out the tires of buses headed for a demonstration in support of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, a video obtained by CNN shows. The video, believed shot within the past two days, shows a line of buses stopped on a road in what is reported to be the city of Limones. The city is about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Tegucigalpa. A noisy, chaotic crowd is milling around the buses while soldiers move among them. Some slight pushing can be seen. "The people united can never be defeated," many crowd members chant in unison. Gunfire is heard and the crowd grows quieter. More shots are heard and then the video shows soldiers shooting out the tires on a yellow bus. Air hissing from a tire can be heard and... [read full story]                    

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