Bogota Tanks Move on Rioting Metallica Fans

160 busted after ticketless fans swarm concert
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 12, 2010 3:19 AM CST

It took four tanks and 1,500 riot police armed with water cannons and tear gas to quell rioting heavy metal fans outside a Metallica concert in the Colombian capital. Somne 160 people were busted and 8 injured after hundreds of ticketless fans tried to crash the concert, the Herald Sun reports. The crowd trouble didn't disrupt the concert.
(More Colombia stories.)

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