11 detained as riot breaks out at plant protest
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Eleven people have been detained in Yangchun, south China鈥檚 Guangdong Province, after demonstrations at the weekend against a project to build a waste incinerator turned violent, government officials said.
Decades of breakneck economic growth have led to severe environmental damage in many parts of China, where choking smog often angers increasingly educated and affluent city-dwellers.
Protesters said the demonstrations, which began on Saturday in the city with a population of about 1 million, drew hundreds of people agitated over the risk of pollution from the project.
鈥淗ow will we survive breathing in noxious smoke?鈥 an employee of a small Internet firm said yesterday.
鈥淟ast night, police have already beaten a lot of people, and arrested more,鈥 said the woman, who gave only her surname Mo.
Photographs posted online, some on the website of Xinhua news agency, showed protesters pinning a police officer to the ground, and flames engulfing an overturned car.
Three vehicles were damaged, the government said.
In an online statement on Sunday, the city government said 11 people had been detained for breaking the law, but no one was injured. Police could not be reached for comment.
Tension persisted yesterday, with protesters saying hundreds of people were still gathered near the gates of a cement plant that is cooperating with the trash incinerator project.
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