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Dutch police use water cannon to disperse anti-immigration protesters

Thousands join anti-immigration protest in The Hague, with clashes leading to attacks on police vehicles.
The Dutch police deployed water cannon to disperse anti-immigration demonstrators in The Hague after some protesters began throwing bottles and rocks at police officers.

A spokesperson for the local government of the capital city of the South Holland province said on Saturday that those targeted by water cannon had split from the main demonstration to block a highway.

Two Swiss apartment block fires leave five missing and 19 injured, police say

Two fires that erupted overnight in apartment buildings in Switzerland left five people missing and 19 injured, police said on Friday.
In Thusis, in Switzerland’s far-east, a “major fire” that broke out just after midnight “entirely burned” a building that housed a restaurant and residential flats, regional police in the canton of Graubünden said in a statement.

“The stairwell collapsed, so the roof of the building had to be opened with a crane,” it said, adding that five people remained missing.

Police said 14 people had managed to escape the burning building. Eight of them were hurt, including two who were in serious condition, they said.The injured had been transported to hospitals across Graubünden and in Zurich.

Around 100 firefighters were sent to the scene, where crews were still working to extinguish the fire Friday morning.