The police said it was an illegal gathering and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and the situation is now said to be calm.
Scores of other people were injured in a stampede as police fired in the air to disperse the crowd.
Police responded by firing warning shots and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Some critics of OWS are banking on the coming winter weather to ultimately disperse the crowd and terminate the month-long demonstrations.
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Correspondents say police with batons arrested and beat scores of Muslims and used teargas in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
The failure to use tear gas meant that the government only had recourse to the massive use of firepower to disperse the crowd.
The footage showed some people lying on the ground after police officers intervened to disperse the crowd using water cannons and riot guns.
Anti-riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd that invaded the pitch after Malawi lost 1-0 to the visitors.
The deputy prime minister's bodyguards opened fire in an attempt to disperse the crowd as protesters hurled stones at the stage, Anbar provincial council member Suhaib al-Rawi told CNN.
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Government troops fired a few shots into the air to disperse the large crowd which gathered at the scene, our correspondent adds.
Warning shots were fired but failed to disperse the advancing crowd who continued their attack.
However, most inside the park - including families with small children, street vendors and television crew - didn't hear the orders to disperse until police were already in the crowd.
The store never opened, and by midmorning authorities wielding megaphones roped off the store and told the crowd of hundreds to disperse to break up the tense scene.
Standard procedure before deploying tear gas is to order the crowd to disperse and warn them that tear gas is about to be used.
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As the crowd began to disperse, my husband and I remained seated, absorbing what we had just witnessed.
Independent news agency Turan reporter Aziz Kerimov told The Associated Press by telephone from Ismayilli that police fired tear gas and water cannons at half-hour intervals as the crowd refused to disperse.
In Somalia , Islamist gunmen opened fire to disperse a crowd protesting against a ban on watching the World Cup, killing two people.
Police began shooting after tear gas failed to disperse a crowd of about 2, 000 people who gathered at the embassy in the capital, San'a, after Friday prayers.
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