LISBON, July 1: Portuguese police used rubber bullets and dogs on Sunday to disperse Brazilians celebrating their country’s World Cup win, injuring at least two people.

A police spokesman said about 500 expatriate Brazil fans spilled out of bars and restaurants in Costa da Caparica, a coastal town about 15 km south-west of Lisbon, celebrating Brazil’s 2-0 win over Germany in the final.

The crowd blocked the main coastal road and quickly swelled, until police in riot gear used dogs and rubber bullets to clear the highway.

A hospital spokesman said at least two people were admitted with wounds but neither was badly hurt.

Convoys of cars flying Brazil flags streamed down Lisbon’s streets sounding their horns, while fans dressed in Brazil’s national colours of green, yellow and blue gathered on sidewalks chanting “Five times champion!”

In Berlin, Several hundred people were arrested and one killed when Germans took to the streets in the aftermath of their national side’s defeat, police said on Monday.

After Sunday’s final, police arrested more than 100 people in Berlin, where pockets of fans scuffled with police on the Kurfuerstendamm shopping street. In the southern city of Munich a group of fans were detained for goose stepping, a Nazi symbol outlawed in Germany.

German media reports said more than 800 people had been arrested across the country. Estimates from police across the country contacted by Reuters put the figure at at least 400.

In the central town of Mannheim, a 39-year-old fan died trying to swim across a river, police said.

“He jumped into the river Neckar and now he’s dead,” said Mannheim police spokesman Volker Dressler.—Reuters