GENEVA: Police fired tear gas and a water cannon in central Zurich late Friday to disperse some 200 masked demonstrators who attacked officers and torched cars, trees and garbage bins during an anti-capitalism protest.

The rioters, many of them armed with iron bars, threw rocks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police in a rampage that caused hundreds of thousands of euros worth of damage. Police blamed left-wing radicals for the violence.

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