Myanmar coup: at least two protesters shot dead by riot police

Second reported victim, a 36-year-old carpenter, was shot in the chest and died en route to hospital

At least two anti-coup protesters in Myanmar have been shot dead by riot police, emergency workers have said, amid continuing demonstrations demanding an end to military rule and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and others.

The deaths, in the country's second-largest city Mandalay, mark the bloodiest day in more than two weeks of increasingly fraught protests as a civil disobedience movement grows.