Cyprus's state electricity utility workers clash with police outside the parliament during a protest against plans to sell off government assets in Cyprus February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Andreas Manolis
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Workers at Cyprus's state electricity utility clashed with police in a rare explosion of anger on Monday over government privatisation plans under a 10 billion euro international bailout.
In a rowdy protest at parliament, around 300 to 400 demonstrators burst through police barricades in central Nicosia while lawmakers were debating provisions of a privatisation law with the island's finance minister.
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