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In West Germany, William Toetoek, an ethnic German writer who immigrated from Romania, was interviewed on Bremen radio and quoted witnesses in Timisoara as saying 300 to 400 protesters were killed and hundreds injured.
Bishop Endre Gyulay of the Roman Catholic diocese of Szeged in Hungary, which includes Timisoara, told the church news agency Kathpress, based in Vienna, that 30 or 40 people fled across the border yesterday and reported two deaths, of an old woman and a 29-year-old man.
"Shots were heard and there were injuries. Ambulances were seen rushing to and fro," he said, quoting witnesses.
Toekes had been harassed for months by Romanian authorities. He and his wife, who is pregnant, had remained inside his church since masked assailants tried to attack him in his neighboring apartment November 2, Berindei said, again quoting witnesses.
Several thousand people, most of them ethnic Romanian students and workers, protested in downtown Timisoara on Saturday and briefly occupied the Communist Party headquarters, breaking windows and smashing furniture, Berindei said.