Police forensic scientists search for bodies. The protest, which creates potentially huge problems for South Korea’s embattled President Lee Myung Bak, was staged in opposition to plans whereby large areas of Seoul’s central Yongsan ward re-developed on a grand scale
Policemen cover bodies being carried into an ambulance. Discontent over a range of issues has resulted in mass street protests in South Korea
Water cannons are fired as police in another container box ascend to the top of the building. At least one police officer was reported to have been killed on the roof, where the flames are thought to have ignited the protesters’ supplies of paint thinner and home-made explosives
Police in a container box approach protesters. The block is due for demolition but the redevelopment plans have met with fury and violence from many of its inhabitants
Police commandos stormed a block of flats in the heart of Seoul during a dramatic dawn raid that left at least five people dead and 20 injured after petrol-fuelled fire tore through the building
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