A 55-year-old man was found dead on Monday hanging from the framework of a huge artificial 'New Year tree' in central Kiev today which has become a symbol of anti-government resistance, Ukrainian police said. Police said they removed the body, which was hanging inside the cone-shaped tubular steel construction on Kiev's Independence Square. The 'tree' is festooned with a poster of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and scrawled with graffiti attacking President Viktor Yanukovich. The body, that of a man from Volyn region in western Ukraine, bore no external wounds and was being examined to establish the cause of death, the police statement said.
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Man, 55, was found hanged inside frame of a giant Christmas tree at main protest camp in Kiev today
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'There are no signs of other injury on the body,' the ministry said, indicating suicide
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Justice minister Elena Lukash had threatened to impose a state of emergency after justice ministry was stormed
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Government now says it has no immediate plans to declare state of emergency after protesters evacuated building
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Protestors occupied building in a bid to achieve president's resignation and other concessions
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They erected a number of barricades, before burning a photo of President Viktor Yanukovych at the entrance
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Ministry was fourth government building to be seized by demonstrators as they take increasingly dramatic action
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Hundreds of protestors are camped on Kiev's main square, with others staying in city hall and agricultural ministry
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Three demonstrators have died in protests so far - two of them after being shot and one of unspecified injuries
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The incident was especially bizarre since the square has been swarming with protesters day and night since the onset of mass protests against @placeholder in early December.