Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- At least six people died Tuesday in protests in Kiev, officials said.
The casualties occurred
after protesters set fire to the headquarters of the ruling Party of
Regions and as violence roiled the capital for the first time in more
than two weeks.
The opposition confirmed
five of the deaths -- three near parliament and two near a metro
station; the Interior Ministry said a policeman died in an ambulance en
route to a hospital.
Earlier, an opposition
member of Ukraine's parliament told CNN that three protesters had died
and seven others were seriously injured during protests Tuesday in Kiev.
Speaking from the
protesters' medical facility outside the parliament building, Olesya
Orobets said ambulances had been barred from the area.
The Ukrainian Interior
Ministry said that more than 47 people -- at least seven of them police
officers -- were hurt in Tuesday's clashes; the protesters' medical
service put that figure at more than 150.
The prosecutor general said in a statement that at least 100 people had been hurt.
In a statement, NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on all parties "to
refrain from violence and to urgently resume dialogue, including through
the parliamentary process.
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