Canal clash

National police special forces and soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday to clear a roadblock erected by residents in southern Nicaragua to protest a proposed transoceanic canal. National police commissioner Aminta Granera said 30 people were arrested and 20 people were injured in the confrontation, including 15 police officers. Granera said authorities had to use force after a week of trying to negotiate an end to the blockade on the Pan American Highway near El Tule, about 400km southeast of Managua.

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‘‘Can you imagine the horror? Can you imagine her sadness?’’ Glasgow Catholic Archbishop Philip Tartaglia tells a memorial mass of a woman who had seen her daughter and parents killed in front of her in the Glasgow garbage truck crash.