CNN
Wednesday, Dec 30th, 2009
An Internet video from what its posters said was one of the
anti-government demonstrations last weekend in Iran shows police
vehicles driving into crowds of protesters and running over at least
one.
In the video — shot Sunday, according to the posting on the
Web site YouTube — green-and-white police trucks rush into crowds
of protesters in the capital, Tehran. Demonstrators scatter, but one
truck drives into a crowd trapped in a narrow street with a wall on one
side and parked cars on the other.
The camera follows the truck as it backs away, and a person briefly
can be seen crumpled in the street where the truck had been. When the
camera returns to the spot, another police truck drives over the
person. Other protesters rush to the downed person’s aid; it was
not clear whether that person was killed.
CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the video, or another one
obtained by CNN that shows a woman who was reportedly killed when hit
by a car driven by members of the Basij, an Iranian paramilitary group.
That video shows protesters transferring her body from a clinic near
where she was reportedly killed to another hospital to keep her remains
out of reach of security forces.
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