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Nicaragua: Students Under Attack in Church

Protesters holed up in a church say they are being fired at by pro-government paramilitaries.

About 150 students in Nicaragua have been trapped inside a church at the main university in Managua after coming under attack from paramilitary groups sympathetic to the government of president Daniel Ortega. So far only a few injured protesters and a journalist have been allowed to leave. We hear from a journalist inside the church.

Also in the programme: The president of Eritrea on his first visit to Ethiopia in two decades; and what do the Mueller hacking indictments against 12 Russians mean for Monday's meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin?

(Image: Pro-government supporters in Masaya, Nicaragua. Credit: Reuters/Oswaldo Rivas)

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Sat 14 Jul 201812:06GMT

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  • Sat 14 Jul 201812:06GMT

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