The news agency's photographer was assaulted by protesters wearing balaclavas, who broke one of his cameras.

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He said all five men, who were wearing balaclavas, attacked him outside the surgery.

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Officers armed with machine-guns and wearing balaclavas broke down a heavy wooden front gate and abseiled from a helicopter to gain entry to the property, media reports say.

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Two days later, the Heathcotes were yet to receive the proceeds and were watching television when four or five men in balaclavas forced their way in, the court heard.

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Where a photojournalist would get closer to the story and seek out the murals, the soldiers, young mothers pushing prams in front of barracks, men in balaclavas, Graham stood back.

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The offenders were wearing balaclavas and dark coloured anoraks.

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Police believe the men, dressed in dark-coloured anorak-type jackets and balaclavas escaped in a dark-coloured hatchback car, possibly a stolen black Citroen C4, which was found burning nearby in Waldgrave Street, shortly after the shooting.

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His apologetic cash demand helped catch him following the raid, with Mrs Sinclair and another employee, Margaret Halliday, attending an identification parade where the men in the line up donned balaclavas and repeated the phrase used by the robber.

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Later that night, on learning that their leader had fallen, the foot-soldiers of Los Zetas - imbued as they are with a sense of military fraternity - stormed the funeral home in balaclavas and with automatic rifles, and took back Lazcano's body.

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