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Workers stage mass general strike against police brutality

CATALONIA came to a near-standstill yesterday as workers staged a general strike in protest at police brutality during Sunday’s independence referendum.

Some 300,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona, police said, after trade unions and separatist groups urged workers to go on partial or full-day strikes.

Almost 900 people were injured on Sunday when riot police unleashed mayhem in an attempt to stop the referendum — deemed illegal by the Spanish government — from taking place.

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