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Kiev crowd retakes square from police, possibly two dead

Anti-government protesters run with an injured man on a stretcher in Independence Square in Kiev February 20, 2014. Photo: Reuters

Kiev, Ukraine: Ukrainian protesters seized back Kiev's Independence Square in fresh clashes with riot police on Thursday that left several injured and possibly two demonstrators dead.

The violence came after a truce declared late on Wednesday by President Viktor Yanukovich, who was due to meet the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland shortly in Kiev.

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