More than 200 people have been arrested following clashes between police and masked protesters at an anticorruption demonstration in the Philippine capital, Manila.

In a statement on Monday morning, the regional police said while most rallies the day before were peaceful, the gathering in Ayala Bridge and Mendiola “even though unprovoked, turned very violent”.

“Protesters turned mobs assaulted police officers with stones and anything they could get their hands on. Not satisfied with harming police officers in uniform, violent protesters set motorcycles on fire, vandalised and ransacked a business establishment,” the statement read.

It added that police arrested 224 suspects, some of whom were minors.

At least 131 officers were wounded in the clashes, some of whom were “very serious”,

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