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Around midnight, U.S. troops in South Korea began installing equipment for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery at its site in Seongju, 296 kilometers southeast of Seoul, sparking fierce protests from local residents...(source: Yonhap, 4.26)

More than 10 protesters were injured during clashes with riot police...

...and some of them had bone fractures, Kim Jong-kyung, co-head of a group of villagers protesting the Thaad deployment, told Reuters. Kim said about 200 protesters, mostly residents in two towns near the battery site, rallied overnight and would remain near the location. “We will continue our fight and there’s still time for Thaad to be actually up and running so we will fight until equipment is withdrawn from the site and ask South Korea’s new government to reconsider the plan,” Kim told Reuters by telephone...(source: Guardian, 4.26/updated reports in Korean you'll get here, here, here, here and here)

Related articles/statements:
☞ THAAD equipment installation underway... (Yonhap, 4.26)
☞ US moves missile defence to South Korea...  (Guardian, 4.26)
☞ 사드설비 도둑반입은 사드배치의 불순한 목적과 불법성을 보여준 증거다. (KCTU, 4.26)