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Source: Norway post, VG, Dagbladet
BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Embassy in Damascus has been burned down, after angry demonstrators in the Syrian capital set the building on fire Saturday evening. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere says embassy personnel will be evacuated. No Norwegians have been hurt. The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs has adviced Norwegian citizens to leave the country.
Syrian police reportedly used tear gas in an attempt to try to drive the demonstators away, and several of them have been sent to hospital.
However, the demonstrators finaly broke into the building, sacked it and set it on fire.
Earlier in the day the Danish embassy was set on fire by several hundred demonstrators.
Several thousand demonstrators roamed the streets of Damascus on Saturday protesting against the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which were first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and later by a number of other European newspapers.
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