Myanmar forces use tear gas, rubber bullets on protesters

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar are ratcheting up their pressure against anti-coup protesters, using water cannons, tear gas, slingshots and rubber bullets against demonstrators and striking dock workers in Mandalay, the nation’s second-largest city. At least five people were injured by rubber bullets Saturday and had to be carried away in ambulances, according to an Associated Press journalist who witnessed the violence. Some 500 police and soldiers descended on the area near Yabanabon dock in Mandalay after dock workers joined the national civil disobedience movement, refusing to work until the military junta that seized power in a Feb. 1 coup reinstates the democratically elected government.