Reply #2: Protesters block roads at G-8 summit

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Protesters block roads at G-8 summit By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press Writer

KUEHLUNGSBORN, Germany - Police used water cannon on scattered stone-throwing demonstrators Wednesday as several hundred protesters swarmed a seven-mile fence surrounding the G-8 summit where President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to meet.

Other protesters blocked roads leading from the airport to the summit site of Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany, police said, as leaders began arriving on the first day of the three-day summit.

One group swarmed over a small-gauge railway used to transport journalists to Heiligendamm from the summit center in nearby Kuehlungsborn, running in various directions until a detachment in riot gear corralled them in one area.

Police spokesman Manfred Luetjann said that protesters had managed to block two routes leading from the airport in Rostock, and they breached security to reach the imposing fence surrounding the resort.

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