Thousands of opposition supporters clashed with police Tuesday in the fourth day of protests against alleged vote rigging in Taiwan's first multiparty election.
At least eight people, including five plainclothes police officers, were injured, police said.Late Tuesday, the crowd in the southern city of Tainan swelled as thousands of protesters armed with clubs and stones flocked to a square next to government offices, state-run radio said.
Protesters were calling for a recount in a county executive election won by a politician of the ruling Nationalist Party. About 2,000 riot police cordoned off the square with barbed-wire barricades and set up water cannons.
Radio reports said police would forcibly clear the square if the crowd did not disperse.