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Clashes Between Police, Protesters Kill 2 in Oman

   VOA News  February 27, 2011

   Witnesses  in  the  Persian Gulf Sultanate of Oman say security forces
   killed  two  demonstrators  Sunday  after firing rubber bullets into a
   crowd demanding political reforms.
   The  clashes  Sunday  between  police  and  stone-throwing  protesters
   occurred  in  the town of Sohar, about 200 kilometers northwest of the
   capital, Muscat. Â
   Oman's  state  news  agency  confirmed the clashes and said the police
   were protecting the people and their property.
   Reports  from Oman said protesters, numbering in the hundreds, had set
   fire to a police station and at least one other government building.
   Sultan  Qaboos shuffled his Cabinet on Saturday, in an apparent bid to
   head  off  the  type  of  protests for political change sweeping other
   countries in the Arab world.
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