DHAKA: Protesters threw bottles, cans and smoke bombs at riot police in central London on Saturday in a demonstration against the re-election of Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

Scuffles broke out when the demonstrators, blaring hooters, banging pots and chanting obscenities, confronted lines of police outside the gate leading to the Prime Minister’s Downing Street residence.

At one point a bicycle was hurled at police, The Straits Times publishes this report on Sunday.

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