Thursday, April 12, 2007

UPDATE 1-Ecuador Congressmen flee after tear-gas attack

(Reuters) - "The government planned this," lawmaker Luis Almeida told Ecuadorean television, blaming a bodyguard of legislators loyal to Correa for the late morning tear-gas attack.

Congress security officials said the canister exploded in a room next to the main chamber and that they had detained a suspect who had tried to fling it into the chamber.


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