Student protesters arrested in Chile

122 students, including many teenagers have been arrested in Santiago, Chile as police raided schools to clear occupy protests across the city.

Government officials claimed that the evictions of the occupations, part of a two-year campaign for education reforms, had been largely peaceful.

The schools were cleared by pre-dawn police raids, in time to be used as polling stations in Sunday's presidential candidate elections.

See the BBC for full report.

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