SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Tens of thousands of men,
women and children joined one of the largest anti-government
protests seen in Seoul for decades on Saturday, demanding
President Park Geun-Hye’s resignation over a snowballing
corruption scandal.
Police had planned for 170,000 people, but organisers
said they expected a final turnout of up to one million for
what was the third in a series of weekly mass protests that
have left Park fighting for her political survival.
On the back of official appeals for calm, police deployed
around 25,000 officers, many of them in full riot gear, while
police buses and trucks blocked every access road — major
or minor — around the presidential Blue House.
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