Protesters angry over an obscure film critical of Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, as unrest that led to the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya spread to other countries in the region.\
Yemeni security forces fired into the air as demonstrators reached the embassy's grounds, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. The New York Times reported that protesters managed to set fire to a building inside the compound but were forced by security forces to pull back after trying to take furniture and computers
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, Agence France-Presse reported that around 500 demonstrators converged on the Swiss Embassy, which handles American interests in the country in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. Police held back the protesters, but the compound had already been evacuated as a precaution, AFP said.
Late Wednesday, police fired teargas at angry demonstrators outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia and several hundred people gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in Sudan.
In Morocco, a few dozen protesters burned American flags and chanted slogans near the U.S. consulate in Casablanca.
Meanwhile in Germany, a Berlin police spokesperson told NBC News that the visa and passport section of the U.S. Consulate in Berlin –- not the embassy -- was protectively evacuated this morning, after a visitor brought suspicious documents into the section.
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Yemeni security forces fired into the air as demonstrators reached the embassy's grounds, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. The New York Times reported that protesters managed to set fire to a building inside the compound but were forced by security forces to pull back after trying to take furniture and computers
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, Agence France-Presse reported that around 500 demonstrators converged on the Swiss Embassy, which handles American interests in the country in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. Police held back the protesters, but the compound had already been evacuated as a precaution, AFP said.
Late Wednesday, police fired teargas at angry demonstrators outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia and several hundred people gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in Sudan.
In Morocco, a few dozen protesters burned American flags and chanted slogans near the U.S. consulate in Casablanca.
Meanwhile in Germany, a Berlin police spokesperson told NBC News that the visa and passport section of the U.S. Consulate in Berlin –- not the embassy -- was protectively evacuated this morning, after a visitor brought suspicious documents into the section.
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