A police officer is rushed to hospital in Paraguay following riots on Friday that left 16 dead.<br/> <br />He was injured when police tried to evict hundreds of peasants from a farm near the city of Curuguaty.<br/> <br />The country's interior minister said the farmers shot at officers when they arrived at the privately-owned acreage.<br/> <br />At least seven officers and nine peasants died in the fighting.<br/> <br />The army was called in to halt the clashes, some of the worst land-related violence Paraguay has seen in two decades.<br/> <br />Those conflicts have increased in recent years with critics saying small-time farmers are being unfairly forced off land to make way for large-scale agriculture.<br/> <br />Andrew Raven, Reuters<br/> <br />c
