Residents of Lubu take to the streets to demand permanent halt to project they fear will contaminate drinking water…Violence erupted on Sunday after more than 10,000 protesters filled the streets of [Lubu] township in Guangdong to oppose official plans to build an incinerator…fearing the plant, which would also generate power, would contaminate a nearby drinking water source.

…[A]bout 4,000 police officers…were deployed to contain the protest, witnesses said. Footage posted on social media appeared to show police using their batons to hit protesters crouching on the ground or against a wall.

On Saturday, the Lubu government announced a halt to the project after about 1,000 villagers protested last month last month. But residents said they feared the stop was only temporary, and decided to hold a bigger protest to demand the plan be scrapped permanently…The propaganda department of Zhaoqing’s Gaoyao district, which oversees Lubu, said in a statement on its microblog that at around noon “some members of the public who are unaware of the truth and were led by some troublemakers tried to storm the Lubu township government and violently attacked some police officers at the scene, injuring some of the officers”…