Dakota Access pipeline: 300 protesters injured after police use water cannons

Twenty-six people hospitalized from 'mass casualty incident' that included bone fractures and hypothermia shown in dramatic video footage of standoff

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Twenty-six people were hospitalized and more than 300 injured after North Dakota law enforcement officers trained water cannons, teargas, and other "less-than-lethal" weapons on unarmed activists protesting against the Dakota Access pipeline in below-freezing weather on Sunday night, according to a group of medical professionals supporting the anti-pipeline movement.

The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council said that injuries from the "mass casualty incident" included multiple bone fractures from projectiles fired by police, a man with internal bleeding from a rubber bullet injury, a man who suffered a grand mal seizure, and a woman who was struck in the face with a rubber bullet and whose vision was compromised.