Police, squatters clash at dumpsite

Police, squatters clash at dumpsite

MANILA (Reuter): One man was killed yesterday and a Japanese cameraman seriously injured when squatters clashed with police trying to evict them from the Smokey Mountain garbage dump in Manila, hospital workers said.

The man was killed after gunshots erupted as police moved in to evict the squatters, they said. A Manila radio station also said one person was killed, but the report could not be immediately confirmed.

The squatters hurled rocks and improvised missiles shot by slingshot at the police, who replied with tear gas.

Toshihiko Uriu, a freelance cameraman from Japan's NHK television, was shot in the stomach while covering the demolition, police and colleagues of the Japanese said. "He is in stable condition," a member of NHK's Manila bureau said.