Czech police used water cannon and tear gas Saturday to disperse an annual gathering of thousands of techno music fans known as the CzechTek party.
Some 5,000 fans from the Czech Republic and other European countries arrived Friday night for the festival of electronic dance music, which this year was held in a meadow in Mlynec, a village about 130 kilometres west of Prague.
On Saturday afternoon, about 1,000 riot police broke up the festival after complaints revellers had illegally entered land outside the zone approved for the event, police spokeswoman Jolana Cihova said.
Police used water cannon and tear gas against the crowd. Cihova said the force was necessary to persuade the revellers to leave the festival, which usually lasts a week.
Several people, including two police officers, were injured, Cihova said, without giving details. Police detained a French citizen who allegedly tried to hit officers with his car, she said.