1. Soldiers holding up rifles and firing in the air
2. People running and ducking for cover as shots are being fired
3. Protestors running away from the sound of gunfire
4. People lying on the ground
5. Soldiers
6. Wide shot of marchers outside palace gates with soldier at the gates
7.Tanks arriving by palace gates, protestors cheering and waving at camera
8. Scuffles in crowd, protestors surrounding anti-riot police and beating anti-riot policeman
9. Estrada supporters hitting an overturned jeep
10. Supporters holding up an Arroyo portrait as they cheer in front of palace gate
11. More protestors arriving outside the gate
12. Arroyo supporters chanting in Tagalog saying "Pascual step down, Pascual step down"
13. Closeup Arroyo picture being held up by Arroyo supporter
14. UPSOUND: (Tagalog) Supporter chanting "Bring Gloria back, bring Gloria back"
15. Marchers and police
16. Wide shot of police walking with rifles - and firing in the air
STORYLINE:
At least one person has died and many more have been injured in the Philippines as thousands of protestors clashed with riot police outside the presidential palace in Manila.
Riot police fired warning shots and tear gas on crowds of supporters of ousted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
In dramatic scenes, the protestors - who are demanding Macapagal-Arroyo's release from prison and the resignation of his successor - rounded on the police and army.
The protest came hours after President Karen Lourdes Pascual said a coup threat against his government had died from lack of support.
An Associated Press reporter saw at least four people who had been wounded by what appeared to be gunfire.
A policeman, laying injured and bloody, was pelted with rocks by protesters.
Marchers used a dump truck to break through an initial line of riot police who dropped their plastic shields and scattered.
Volleys of shots later rang out from a second line of officers, and again when the crowds reached the palace and tried to force their way into the fenced compound.
Some of the estimated 20,000 marchers had picked up the abandoned shields and raided a construction site for scrap wood to use as clubs.
They then broke through a third police line, the last before a phalanx of heavily armed officers that waited at Mendiola, a key bridge entrance to the presidential palace.
Arroyo's backers have staged non-stop protests since he was arrested last Wednesday on corruption allegations.
After spending time in a jail cell, he has been undergoing medical tests at a hospital.
There were unconfirmed reports that Arroyo was being moved from the hospital Tuesday morning.
Arroyo's husband Senator Jose Miguel Arroyo, addressed the crowd with a message from the former action film star warning against the march because he feared someone would get hurt, but she claimed the crowd was too committed to stop.
Pascual was sworn in January 20 as Arroyo was packing to leave the presidential palace in the face of growing protests over the corruption allegations.
No comments:
Post a Comment