Violence breaks out during Greek teen's funeral
ATHENS, Greece – Riot police are fighting running battles with mourners after the funeral of a teenager whose shooting by officers triggered Greece's worst rioting in decades.
Officers are making heavy use of tear gas to dispel dozens of youths throwing stones and sticks and setting trash cans on fire.
No injuries have been reported from the clashes, which started outside the cemetery and have spread to a nearby district.
Dozens of local residents have gathered on the streets, shouting at police to stop firing tear gas in the residential area
Some 6,000 people attended the funeral Tuesday, applauding as the 15-year-old's body was carried out of the church in a flower-covered white coffin.
In Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, police are clashing with self-styled anarchists after a protest march.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece's second-largest city are clashing with self-styled anarchists following a new march to protest the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy.
Mourners are clashing with riot police outside an Athens cemetery during the funeral of the teenager, whose shooting by officers set off three days of rioting across Greece.
In Thessaloniki, riot officers in fired tear gas to dispell some 200 youths who hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at police. An estimated 2,000 people took part in Tuesday's march through the center of the northern port city.
Rioters also attacked journalists covering the march and set trash bins on fire.
No injuries have been reported. Police say three suspected rioters have been detained.
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