Clashes between protesters and security forces in Tibet's main city of Lhasa have left at least two people dead, according to reports.
An emergency official told AFP news agency that many people had been hurt and an unspecified number had died.

The US-based Radio Free Asia quoted witnesses who said they had seen at least two bodies on Lhasa's streets.

Rallies have continued all week in what are said to be the largest protests against Beijing's rule in 20 years.

British journalist James Miles, in Lhasa, told the BBC that rioters had taken control of the city centre.

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"Some of them are still attacking Chinese properties - shops, restaurants, owned by ethnic Chinese," he said.

"Some of them are looting those shops, taking out the contents and throwing them on huge fires which they've lit in the street."

Another eyewitness said there were tanks on the street and he had seen people being carried away on stretchers.

Dalai Lama concerned

Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government, quoted one Lhasa resident as saying: "[The rioters] ransacked Chinese shops and the police fired live ammunition into the crowd. No-one is allowed to move around in Lhasa now."

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