source<\/a><\/p>\n KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators broke into the Batu Caves temple compound and destroyed temple property early yesterday morning, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said. <\/p>\n
\n He said the crowd that had gathered there swelled from a mere 200 people just after midnight to more than 1,000 by about 2am. <\/p>\n
“The demonstrators forced open the locked gates and started breaking temple property, prompting the temple committee to lodge a police report,” he said. <\/p>\n
Minutes later several trucks of policemen, including those in plainclothes and members of the Light Strike Force unit, arrived at the temple and told the demonstrators to disperse. <\/p>\n
\n However, they refused and instead fled into the temple premises, when police gave them a last warning. <\/p>\n
When policemen pursued them, the demonstrators pelted and attacked them with stones and inter-locking bricks, resulting in several policemen being injured. <\/p>\n
The demonstrators also threw a Molotov cocktail at a tourist charter bus, setting in on fire. They also shattered the windscreens and windows of several passing cars by throwing stones and bricks at the vehicles. <\/p>\n
\n Musa said no tear gas or water cannons were used at the demonstrators during the incident. <\/p>\n
\n “By about 4am, 69 people had been arrested,” he added. <\/p>\n
\n As at press time, police were keeping a close watch on the area. <\/p>\n
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says musa:" Musa said no tear gas or water cannons were used at the demonstrators during the incident. " let's look at photos from jeffooi's site: http:\/\/www.jeffooi.com\/2007\/11\/hindraf_rally_ethnic_minority_1.php if that's not tear gas and water cannon, i'll shave my head (again)! Batu Caves temple property damaged, 69 protesters held source KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators broke into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38,21,27,275],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-batu-caves","tag-hindraf","tag-protest","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}