TAIPEI: Taiwan police on Monday used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of demonstrators blocking a main road in the capital to demand the scrapping of a controversial nuclear power plant.

An estimated 28,500 anti-nuclear demonstrators had blockaded one of Taipei’s busiest streets on Sunday, forcing the ruling Kuomintang party to yield and halt construction work at the nearly completed plant.

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