(NewsCore) - SOHAR, Oman - two demonstrators were shot dead with rubber bullets and five others were injured on Sunday as the Omani security forces opened fire on demonstrators who tried to attack a police station, a security official said.

"Two died after being shot with rubber bullets when protesters attempted to storm a police station" 125 kilometers Northwest of Muscat, Sohar, said officer on condition of anonymity.

The demonstrators attempted to attack a police station near of the circle of Earth, where some 250 demonstrators were contains a sit-in, when security forces forced them with tear gas, witnesses said.

The pro-Western Sultanate previously saved much of the wave of unrest that began sweeping the Arab world after the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular uprising.

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