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GV Funeral cortege (2 shots)
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CU Mourners in procession
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TV More mourners
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SV Coffin carried into cemetery
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GV & SV Mourners at church (3 shots)
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SV NIGHT Students arguing with police
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SV Police reinforcements arrive and run up street
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CU Policeman with radio
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SV Police disperse students
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SV Police walk down road firing tear gas grenades
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SV Police move forward
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SV Detectives drag off arrested student
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Background: Violent confrontations between students and police continued in Argentina Thursday (23 May). In Rosario, the nation's second-largest city, rioting students seized a radio station, set fires, and battled police in the streets.

Similar battles erupted in Buens Aires, La Plata, Tucerman, Salta, and Cordoba. In Rosario, police brandished sabers at rioting students. Scores of persons were injured and arrested.

One cause of the violence was the killing on Sunday (18 May) of Rodolfo Roque Bello, 22, an economics student at Rosario University. He was shot in the head by a policeman as officers broke up a demonstration protesting the earlier shooting of another student.

Hundreds of persons marched in the funeral cortege for the student in Buens Aires Tuesday (20 May).

A few hours after the funeral, police and students clashed in the streets of Buens Aires. The police fired tear gas grenades and used batons to disperse the students. Police and detectives arrested several protesters.