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Lebanon's labour union cancels protest (Extra)
May 7, 2008, 7:50 GMT
Beirut - Lebanon's Labour Union cancelled Wednesday a scheduled demonstration to protest the high cost of living, after roads were blocked and tension prevailed in the streets.
A source at the Labour Union told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that 'the confederation will announce the cancellation of the protest which was due to start at 7:00 GMT because our demands were being politicized and we want to avoid violence in the streets.'
Earlier, a sonic bomb was thrown at demonstrators gathering in Kornich al-Mazraa in Lebanon, wounding at least five people, among them two soldiers, ahead of the labour protest Wednesday.
Dozens of pro-Syrian opposition followers, mainly from the Shiite Hezbollah movement and its ally Amal, blocked in the early hours of the morning roads leading to Beirut a few hours ahead of the scheduled protest.
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