Students, police clash in Honduras capital during anti-graft protest

Students, police clash in Honduras capital during anti-graft protest
By AFP 3 hours ago .

Rock-hurling students clashed with riot police firing tear gas and water cannon in Honduras' capital Wednesday at a demonstration seeking a UN probe of alleged government graft.

Elsewhere, across the north of the country, hundreds of demonstrators backing the same call used burning tires to block roads. Many of them were from the country's Lenca indigenous community.

The protests were inspired by the September resignation and arrest of the president in neighboring Guatemala, Otto Perez, after a UN-backed body there exposed a corrupt network allegedly involving politicians taking bribes in exchange for lifting import duties.

In the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, hundreds of students from the city's National University clashed with dozens of riot police.

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