RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Teachers in Brazil protesting pay issues with the country’s government extinguished the Olympic Torch during a procession last week in an altercation that drew intervention from the military.

A video recorded by Angra dos Reis shows protesters descend on the torch ceremony Wednesday in Angra dos Reis, a city near Rio, to highlight an apparent delay in salary payments to government employees. The group hurled explosives into the street, and failed in two attempts to extinguish the Olympic flame before successfully snubbing it out on a third attempt, SBNation.com reports.

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According to The Washington Post:

Chaotic scenes caught on amateur video show a crowd of young people appearing to steal the torch from the procession and then extinguish it. Local news reports said that the Brazilian military eventually disbanded the protests using tear gas and rubber bullets, and in return were showered with rocks and bricks by the crowd. One child was reportedly injured. The torch relay was temporarily halted. …

The state of Rio de Janeiro, where the Games are being hosted, is in the midst of a crippling cash crunch, and hasn’t paid some government employees in more than two months.

The incident is the latest in a series of attempts to extinguish the Olympic flame that have also involved attempts to douse the torch with fire extinguishers and water. In one incident in late June, a man who attempted to throw a bucket of water on the torch in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul was arrested, according to a YouTube video of the failed attempt.

“The people of Brazil have been less than enamored with the financial costs of the Games, and earlier this month police officers demanding unpaid wages urged visitors not to attend the event due to safety concerns,” RT.com reports about protest in Angra dos Reis.

The “disturbance is the latest episode in the torch’s troublesome tour around the country since it arrived in Brazil, having been lit in Athens, Greece, on May 3. The relay team has so far witnessed a motorcycle collision, a clumsy fall, and numerous attempts to grab or extinguish the Olympic flame.”

The most recent incident resulted in police canceling the relay, and videos posted online show the flame was extinguished when its carrier boarded a bus as police and military quelled the protesters.

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The Associated Press in mid-July reported that pollster Datafolha found that two-thirds of Brazilians believe the Olympic Games will do their country more harm than good, especially in the midst of a two-year recession tied to a decrease in oil prices and a kickback scheme involving a state oil company.

The poll, conducted with murder and robbery rates on the rise, found that “more than half of Brazilians think that the city’s security problems are a cause of shame. Officers have staged protests to complain about salary delays and poor working conditions, with police stations missing basic items such as toilet paper,” the AP reports. “At a recent demonstration in the airport, one group of police held signs in English reading ‘Welcome to Hell.’”

Protesting teachers, meanwhile, have toted signs outside of the Brazil soccer team’s training camp that read “Money for Olympics. No money for public education.”

Protesters are generally angry that the country has spent significant funds on preparing for the Olympic Games when schools, hospitals, police and other public services have suffered, according to the news service.