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Reuters
Sunday, March 23, 2003; 10:15 AM

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - Hundreds of rock-throwing anti-war protesters clashed with police in Khartoum on Sunday, setting a police station and a patrol car on fire a day after a student was killed during a similar demonstration.

Witnesses said police used tear gas to push back crowds who tried to surge toward the U.S. embassy in protest against the war to unseat Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Demonstrators pelted police with rocks, set tires alight in a number of Khartoum streets and smashed several police, government and privately owned vehicles.

Some of the protesters also vented their anger at the government following the death on Saturday of a 22-year-old student protester from al-Nileen University. Police said the exact circumstances of his death were still under investigation.

"Leave power, you dictorial government," some of the students shouted, alongside chants of "Down, down USA! Bush is a war criminal."

Like other Arab states, the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has denounced the U.S.-led war against Iraq.

Thousands have protested and in some cases clashed with riot police across the Arab world since the assault on Iraq began on Thursday.

At least two people were killed in anti-war demonstrations in Yemen on Friday.