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Thursday, 29 March, 2001, 12:45 GMT 13:45 UK
S Korea riot police evict protestors

Riot police have stormed a telephone exchange in the South Korean capital Seoul to end a protest by unemployed workers who were demanding their jobs back.

The former Korea Telecom employees occupied the building for several hours, throwing petrol bombs and stones at the police .

Nearly two hundred arrests were made.

About six hundred riot police took part in the operation.

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