Scores arrested in violent Brazil transportation riot

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Protesters went on a rampage in Brazil's largest city, smashing windows and teller machines and battling riot police in a fresh bout of violence blamed on the "Black Bloc" anarchist group.

A group of vandals, some wearing black hoods, smashed store and bank windows and bank teller machines in a bus station in the center of Sao Paulo.

A public bus was set on fire, and subway and bus ticket machines destroyed during the riot.

Police fired tear gas and arrested 92 people during the disturbances late Friday, which began as a peaceful march to demand free public transportation for students before turning violent.

Sao Paulo's military police said a police colonel was mobbed and beaten by a group of "criminals disguised as protesters" who stole his pistol and radio.

Images released by police showed masked assailants swarming the colonel as another police officer, pistol in hand, tried to defend him.

One of those taken into custody had been booked for attempted murder of the police colonel, Reynaldo Simoes Rossi, who was released from the hospital.