When on-lookers become victims

As the police and the workers were sizing each other up, even the usually busy shoppers stopped their shopping businesses to gawk at the spectacle before them. A number of them, hence were caught in the crossfire as the police using rubber bullets and tear gas tore into the workers in an effort to dismiss them.

Left wiping the bitter effects of teargas from their eyes, surveying injuries sustained while scaling walls, the on-lookers spent the day talking about what happened that day. An employee of Thapama Hotel told colleagues and whoever cared to listen that tear gas entered her eyes when she went to watch as the workers sang and toy-toyied while the police were preparing to launch their assault on them.