31.   Farmers claimed police shot rubber bullets, although police said they used only batons.

32.   He noted that a Russian television crew arrived promptly to film police using batons to disperse the pensioners, the report said.

33.   In Bangladesh, police used batons to disperse hundreds of revelers who attacked shops and smashed cars, witnesses said Monday.

34.   In Sherpur, one person was killed when police burst tear gas shells, used batons and later fired bullets to disperse opposition and pro-government activists.

35.   In the ensuing battle, police used batons to disperse the protesters.

36.   In the ensuing battle with the forces of order, police used batons to disperse the protesters.

37.   Item show police using batons to beat them back as they tried to storm the Chinese Embassy.

38.   Last week, police in Riga, the Latvian capital, used batons to violently disrupt a protest by Russian pensioners.

39.   Military police using illuminated batons waved vehicles into position in the staging area in the final moments of darkness.

40.   Officers used batons and tear gas to disperse crowds, and eyewitnesses said Hindu rioters armed with swords and iron rods looted and destroyed several Muslim-owned shops.