Indonesian police have fired warning shots at thousands of supporters of President Mr Abdurrahman Wahid who were attacking an opposition party office in an East Java town.
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The protesters in the town of Lamongan hurled rocks at the local office of the former ruling Golkar party, police Chief Commissioner Sudarsono said.
"Police fired point blank," said Mr Sudarsono, speaking from Lamongan, 25 miles west of the provincial capital of Surabaya.
It is the second time in two days that police have been forced to open fire on Wahid supporters in his stronghold of East Java.
On Wednesday, police fired warning shots and teargas as thousands of Wahid supporters ran amok in Surabaya and destroyed the provincial headquarters of the Golkar party.
The loyalists, most of them members of the 40-million-strong Muslim Nahdlatul Ulama organisation that Mr Wahid once headed, are angered over moves in the national parliament in Jakarta to unseat the president.
AFP