Taiwan veterans clash with police in pension protest

Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police and attempted to storm into parliament in the latest of a string of protests against the government’s planned pension cuts.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the legislature’s main entrance, some throwing smoke bombs and water bottles at police officers guarding the building in central Taipei.

They also unsuccessfully tried to hurl an empty wooden coffin into the parliament compound’s courtyard, television footage showed.

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