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 ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) - Crucial regional elections turned violent Sunday as police and the ruling party's militia engaged in running clashes with opposition supporters in the streets of the main town in semiautonomous Zanzibar.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons while party militiamen beat back people protesting election irregularities on the edges of the old city, known as Stone Town. More than a dozen people were injured, hospital officials said.
Voters turned out in heavy numbers to choose between the socialists who have ruled the Indian Ocean archipelago for nearly 40 years and an opposition group promising wholesale economic reforms. Results were not expected until later in the week.
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