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Protest Leads To State Of Emergency

October 01 2010

Ecuador

A state of siege was declared in Ecuador Thursday amid battling between police and troops, with the president holed up for hours in a Quito hospital.

Police were rebelling over benefit cuts, reports the U.K.'s Press Association.

President Rafael Correa was addressing the protesters outside a police barracks when a tear gas canister exploded near him, causing him to choke, security officials said.

Correa called the incident an attempted coup d'etat.

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