Weah demands halt to count

UN FORCES fired tear gas at angry supporters of Liberian soccer star George Weah yesterday after they stoned police and marched to the US embassy to demand a halt to counting in an election Weah says was rigged.

Police from the UN peacekeeping force also used batons to disperse hundreds of Weah supporters who broke through a line of Liberian riot police near the US embassy building.

A 20-year-old woman was bleeding from the head after being hit by a UN policeman, witnesses said, provoking a furious reaction from some in the crowd, who chanted “Wicked UN.”