The men were arrested, but the security patrol was suddenly overwhelmed by a stone-throwing crowd of 40 people, who forcibly released the suspects.

After three days riot police and army motorized infantry reestablished order using a water cannon against a stone-throwing crowd.

An army spokeswoman said the soldiers had faced a large stone-throwing crowd and opened fire when a firebomb landed near their position.

Back then, combat soldiers had to contend mostly with stone-throwing crowds that included women and children.

He saw him struggle to rise, then he was gone, dragged down by the undertow of the surging, stone-throwing crowd.

Cars were set alight, shops looted and six Australian police officers, members of a regional peace-keeping force, were injured by stone-throwing crowds.

Several people were wounded, and 30 arrests were reported by the police, as paramilitary border police broke up the stone-throwing crowd.

These early Salvationists sometimes found themselves menaced by stone-throwing crowds.

In one instance, three Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers firing into a stone-throwing crowd.

Police opened fire Wednesday on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country.