Anti-Government Protesting in Oaxaca Mexico Leaves 6 People Injured, 38 Arrested
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April 9, 2014
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Thirty-eight people were arrested following a protest that left six police officers and a newspaper photographer injured in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials said.

The protesters got out of control on Monday when police moved in to control the crowd, which attacked officers with “stones, sticks and machetes” inside the Ciudad Administrativa government complex in Oaxaca city, the state capital, the Oaxaca Public Safety Secretariat said in a statement.

Six state police officers and Tiempo newspaper photographer Giovanna Martinez were injured in the melee, the secretariat said.

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