Several people were severely injured as NSS personnel used riot batons and teargas on unarmed civilians.

Six policemen stood over the fighters, slamming them with riot batons until they both lay still.

He was beaten up with bare hands, wooden planks and riot batons.

Police officers carrying riot batons and escorted by dogs arrested all 245.

At one point, police officers used chemical spray and riot batons to push protesters out of a downtown intersection.

Police used 36-inch riot batons to "jab" and push back the protesters and to break the human chain.

Some of his supporters wore pistols tucked inside their heavy belts; others carried riot batons or stiff whips called sjamboks.

They all carried riot batons.

There wasa sergeant beside him, and five constables in the rear of the Land-Rover, all of them armed with riot batons.

Longer truncheons are called "riot batons" because of their use in riot control.