Iran protesters help woman apparently shot in leg

Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence Sunday night to protest their country's days of denials that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 176 people, the latest unrest to roil the capital amid soaring tensions with the United States.

Video obtained by The Associated Press showed a group of people in Tehran who can be heard shouting that a woman has been shot in the leg "with bullets" as they help her up from the floor.

Other videos suggested similar protests were taking place in other Iranian cities.

Protesters often wore hoods and covered their faces, probably to avoid being recognized by surveillance cameras.

(Image credit-AP)