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Hundreds storm bombing range in Vieques after US Navy withdraws.
(From Agence France Presse)
Police were to seek permission to arrest anyone at the US Navy's former bombing range on the island of Vieques, after hundreds of hooded protesters burned military vehicles and destroyed government property there.
The violence occurred after a midnight Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday) deadline passed for the Navy to officially withdraw from the land, which for 60 years has been used as a bombing and artillery range, and for amphibious landing exercises.
The Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior is now in charge of the land, and plans to develop a wildlife refuge there.
Witnesses said between 500 and 600 protesters, many with their faces covered, charged a fence around the Camp Garcia bombing range at Vieques when the deadline was reached.
Police superintendant Victor Rivera said officers were unable to make any arrests because the violence occurred within an area under federal jurisdiction.
Rivera said he was to meet with Interior Department officials to see how local police could protect the federal lands.
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