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(27 Aug 2006) SHOTLIST
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1. Injured people on beds in ward of Quetta Civil Hospital
2. Juma Khan, injured in protests covered in blood on hospital bed
3. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Juma Khan, injured in violent protests:
"I was with my cart and suddenly the violence started. The protesters and police were firing and throwing stones and I got injured and now I'm in the hospital."
4. Relatives and friends of those injured waiting in corridor of hospital
STORYLINE:
Police arrested hundreds of rioters on Sunday as violent protests flared for a second day against the Pakistani military's killing of a rebel tribal chief.
Local political groups said Nawab Akbar Bugti's death had sparked a "never-ending war."
Enraged mobs burned dozens of shops, buses, banks and police vehicles on Sunday in Quetta, the capital of southwest Baluchistan province.
The rioters defied a round-the-clock curfew imposed by government authorities to try quell the outpouring of anger over 79-year-old Bugti's killing on Saturday in a raid on his mountain hide-out.
Nine policemen suffered minor wounds in a clash with about 70 protesters, some firing pistols, who tried to loot a bank and several nearby shops in northern Quetta, said a police officer.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the mob.
An unknown number of people were injured in the clashes and there have been reports of one casualty.
Baluchistan province's police chief said 450 people were arrested on Sunday in Quetta as security forces tried to crack down on the violence, which has spread to other parts of the impoverished province and into the commercial capital Karachi.
Those injured were taken to Quetta Civil Hospital to receive treatment.
"I was with my cart and suddenly the violence started," said Juma Khan, one of those injured. "The protesters and police were firing and throwing stones and I got injured and now I'm in the hospital."
In the southern port of Karachi, large numbers of Baluch people pelted cars with stones and set tyres alight, police said.
Extra police and paramilitary forces were deployed to Karachi's streets.
An alliance of four Baluch nationalist groups announced a 15-day mourning period over Bugti's death and vowed to continue protests throughout the region.
Businesses and public transport will observe a strike on Monday.
Government forces killed Bugti, one of Pakistan's most prominent fugitives, and at least 24 of his supporters during a raid on his cave hide-out in the Kohlu area, about 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of Quetta.
Bugti went into hiding in late 2005 after an attempt was made on the Pakistani president's life.
Bugti's son-in-law, Shahid Bugti, a senator in Pakistan's parliament, denounced the killing and demanded the government return the tribal chief's body so his family for burial.
Baluchistan has been wracked by decades of low-level conflict, which has often flared into large-scale clashes, as ethnic-Baluch tribespeople led by Bugti pressed the government for an increased share of wealth from natural resources extracted from the province, including gas, oil and coal.
In recent months, the government has said scores of fighters loyal to Bugti have laid down their weapons and surrendered to authorities as it stepped up attacks against the tribal chief.

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