KIEV (Reuters) - Separatist protesters on Sunday seized control of the mayor's office in the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on the Azov Sea, local media said.
The protesters entered the building following a rally involving about 1,000 people demonstrating in favour of the creation of a separate republic in eastern Ukraine, a local journalist for the newspaper Priazovsky Worker said.
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