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huge crowd of Zelaya supporters surrounding Tegucigalpa's
international airport. At least one man was killed � shot in the head
from inside the airport as people tried to break through a security
fence, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
The Red Cross identified him as a 19-year-old from Zelaya's home
province of Olancho.
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At least 30 people were treated for injuries, the Red Cross said,
after security forces fired warning shots and tear gas.
When Zelaya's plane was turned away, his supporters began chanting "We
want blue helmets!" � a reference to U.N. peacekeepers.
Karin Antunez, 27, was in tears.
"We're scared. We feel sad because these coup soldiers won't let Mel
return, but we're not going to back down," she said, referring to
Zelaya by his nickname. "We're the people and we're going to keep
marching so that our president comes home."
Zelaya won wide international support after his ouster, but several
presidents who originally were to accompany him decided it was too
dangerous to fly on Zelaya's plane, which carried only close advisers,
two journalists from the Venezuela-based network Telesur and U.N.
General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a leftist
Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister.
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