Anti-government protests in Albania

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/22/albanian-president-protests-... president appeals for calm after three die in protests[/url]

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Three people were shot dead in Tirana yesterday as protesters and police clashed in what Albania's prime minister Sali Berisha called an opposition attempt to foment a Tunisia-style uprising.

Supporters of the opposition socialist party, which refuses to accept the result of a 2009 election, protested outside Berisha's office against what they see as official corruption and electoral fraud.

Some pelted the building and police with stones, sticks and umbrellas. Police responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannon and stun grenades. Smoke billowed from burning cars, some of them police vehicles.