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One dead amid violence between US far-right and counter-demonstrators

Thousands were expected to descend on Charlottesville either to demonstrate in or rail against a "Unite the Right Rally," hours after hundreds of torch-bearing marchers demonstrated at the normally tranquil city's university campus.

12.08.2017

(AFP) - One person has died in clashes between white nationalist demonstrators and counter-protestors, the mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia said Saturday.

"I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here," wrote mayor Mike Signer on Twitter. "I urge all people of good will -- go home."

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