Arab syndrome reaches Jordan: 100 injured in street clashes

PanARMENIAN.Net - More than 100 people were injured on March 25 as pro-reform protesters and government supporters clashed in Amman, prompting police to use water cannons to disperse them.

Anti-riot police also broke up a protest camp for students and arrested several of them, a security official told AFP.

"There are more than 100 people injured, including policemen. Two of the injured are in critical condition," a medical source at the scene said.

An AFP journalist at the scene said police used water cannons to break up clashes between the students protesting to demand reforms and government supporters.

The clashes erupted after around 200 government supporters hurled large stones at more than 2,000 young demonstrators from different movements, including the powerful Islamist opposition, took part to call for reforms to the current regime and more efforts to fight corruption.

Spots of blood marked the location of the demonstration next to Amman's Interior Circle, or Gamal Abdel Nasser Square.

On March 24 night, government supporters attacked the young protesters with stones, injuring at least 30 people.