Tibetan protesters attack London's Chinese embassy

By Chloe Fussell

LONDON (Reuters) - Pro-Tibetan protestors threw eggs, tomatoes and sticks at the Chinese embassy in London on Monday during a demonstration in support of Tibetans involved in recent violent clashes in their country.

Around 200 protestors gathered across the road from the embassy to hold a minute's silence at 4 p.m., the deadline imposed by China for those involved in last week's violent clashes in Tibet to hand themselves into authorities.

At one point, about 50 of the demonstrators surged across the road towards the door of the embassy, throwing placards, eggs and tomatoes.

"We just wanted to knock on the door and say we're there," said one protestor.

One woman was injured when she fell in the rush.

"The Chinese are literally killing Tibetans. The media reports coming out of there are totally biased towards the Chinese. We can't just sit here and do nothing," said Phurbu Rinzin, 25, one of six students who began a 24-hour hunger strike during the protest.

While Chinese officials claim just over a dozen people have died in Tibetan areas of China since Friday's protests, exiled representatives of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, put the protest death toll closer to 80.

British member of parliament Norman Baker and European Parliament vice-president Edward McMillan-Scott pledged their support to those gathered.