Medics and protesters say police are using birdshot, which the police deny.

Police fired tear gas and birdshot at them, a Reuters witness said.

Two were wounded because of birdshot and the rest suffered teargas-related injures.

The youth felt the sting of a piece of birdshot in his leg.

Well, the g-g-gun goes off, and f-f-fills Mister Thief with number twelve birdshot.

We do not seek bears with birdshot, and that is all we have.

But the little birdshot wouldn't even go through an old rusted out washtub.

Witnesses heard gunfire and state television showed a man in hospital with birdshot wounds.

And then all of them began to spit birdshot, and started an inquest simultaneously.

Some of the birdshot pellets struck another student, Thomas Fowler, standing several feet away.

Well, mind how you tempt me to let fly with a charge of birdshot.

The night-riders mostly used these here automatic shot-guns, but they didn't bother with birdshot.

Come on outa there 'fore I send a charge of birdshot in after yuh!

It allows security forces to disperse illegal protests with water cannon, tear gas and birdshot.

The reason I used the birdshot was that I didn't want to break the glass.

These weapons discharge hundreds of small metal pellets, or birdshot, capable of piercing the eye.