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| A ceremony to mark the reburial of former Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron has been marred by violence in Buenos Aires. | A ceremony to mark the reburial of former Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron has been marred by violence in Buenos Aires. |
| Dozens of people were hurt and shots reportedly fired after tens of thousands had gathered in the capital. | Dozens of people were hurt and shots reportedly fired after tens of thousands had gathered in the capital. |
| Trade unions affiliated to the Peronist movement apparently fought over access to the lavish reburial ceremony. | Trade unions affiliated to the Peronist movement apparently fought over access to the lavish reburial ceremony. |
| Peron was being reburied in a mausoleum outside Buenos Aires after his remains were disinterred this month. | Peron was being reburied in a mausoleum outside Buenos Aires after his remains were disinterred this month. |
| Peron died in 1974 but his influence on Argentina remains strong. | Peron died in 1974 but his influence on Argentina remains strong. |
| Rubber bullets | Rubber bullets |
| Local media said the violence forced President Nestor Kirchner to abandon plans to attend the ceremony marking the transfer of Peron's remains to his final resting place. | Local media said the violence forced President Nestor Kirchner to abandon plans to attend the ceremony marking the transfer of Peron's remains to his final resting place. |
| The BBC's Daniel Schweimler says the Peronist movement was riddled with factional in-fighting while Peron was alive and it appears little has changed 32 years after his death. | |
| Tens of thousands paid respects to the flag-draped coffin | Tens of thousands paid respects to the flag-draped coffin |
| Reports say the clash was between members of the building workers' and the truck drivers' trade unions and was possibly sparked by an inability to gain entrance to the ceremony. | Reports say the clash was between members of the building workers' and the truck drivers' trade unions and was possibly sparked by an inability to gain entrance to the ceremony. |
| Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at club-wielding attackers. | Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at club-wielding attackers. |
| Local media reports said one police officer was injured by gunfire. | Local media reports said one police officer was injured by gunfire. |
| The violence flared after thousands had paid respects to the procession that carried Peron's coffin from a city cemetery to the new mausoleum on his former weekend estate in San Vicente, 40km (25 miles) southwest of the capital. | The violence flared after thousands had paid respects to the procession that carried Peron's coffin from a city cemetery to the new mausoleum on his former weekend estate in San Vicente, 40km (25 miles) southwest of the capital. |
| Hundreds of people were forced to flee the grounds of the estate. | Hundreds of people were forced to flee the grounds of the estate. |
| Riot police ringed the coffin as it was finally taken into the mausoleum. | Riot police ringed the coffin as it was finally taken into the mausoleum. |
| Peron was a military man and a populist, loved by the poor and hated by the wealthier sectors of society, our correspondent says. | Peron was a military man and a populist, loved by the poor and hated by the wealthier sectors of society, our correspondent says. |
| His supporters believe the mausoleum is a more fitting home for one of the key figures in recent Argentine history and many now hope the remains of his second wife - known around the world as Evita - can be laid alongside her husband. | His supporters believe the mausoleum is a more fitting home for one of the key figures in recent Argentine history and many now hope the remains of his second wife - known around the world as Evita - can be laid alongside her husband. |
| The reburial - Peron's third - was timed to coincide with the anniversary of a huge protest in 1945 which called for Peron's release from prison after he had been jailed for a week by the leaders of a coup. | The reburial - Peron's third - was timed to coincide with the anniversary of a huge protest in 1945 which called for Peron's release from prison after he had been jailed for a week by the leaders of a coup. |