The World - News from Feb. 18, 1985
Eleven people were injured in New Caledonia when police clashed with pro-independence militants in the first serious outbreak of violence in more than a month, officials said. Police used tear gas, grenades and clubs to disperse about 50 militant Kanaks near the town of Thio, a stronghold of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front. In three months, about 20 people have died in ethnic violence in the French territory in the South Pacific.
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