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Eyewitnesses said the students were running from the troops and were shot in the back.


They said a nine-year-old boy had also been killed.


Residents, many of them grieving for relatives killed in the assault on the city early today, sought some revenge this afternoon by burning some 100 Army trucks parked on the western outskirts of the capital.


But without weapons or any military support, there were reports of people being killed for allegedly breaching the martial law rules announced by the Prime Minister, Li Peng, but not enforced, 15 days ago.


Faced with an unarmed and, up to last night, largely non-violent, crowd in central Beijing, a highly disciplined force, believed to be the 27th Army, led by a relative of the Chinese President and elderly hardliner, Yang Shangkun, moved into the capital from several directions, supported by hundreds of tanks, armoured personnel carriers, trucks and artillery.


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