One person has been arrested after hundreds of protesters opposed to a North Dakota oil pipeline project clashed with police who fired tear gas and water cannons, officials said.
An estimated 400 protesters mounted the Backwater Bridge on Sunday and attempted to force their way past police in what the Morton County Sheriff's Department initially described as an "ongoing riot", the latest in a series of demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Supporters of the pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer Partners, said the project offers the fast and most direct route for bringing Bakken shale oil from North Dakota to US Gulf Coast refineries and would be safer than transporting the oil by road or rail.
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