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Protesters are detained by police after a gathering opposing a new education law in Yangon, Myanmar. (Khin Maung Win, AP)
Protesters are detained by police after a gathering opposing a new education law in Yangon, Myanmar. (Khin Maung Win, AP)

Letpadan - Police cracked down on student protesters opposing Myanmar's new education law on Friday, roughly grabbing demonstrators and loading them onto trucks in the third such clampdown in as many days.

An Associated Press photographer and other witnesses in Letpadan, 140km north of the country's main city Yangon, said the incident happened when about 20 students broke off from a larger group of protesters gathering at a nearby monastery.

Police swooped in, dragging five people, including a young woman, into trucks, they said.

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