ULAANBAATAR: Thousands of people have braved freezing temperatures in Mongolia's capital to protest alleged corruption in the East Asian country's coal industry and soaring inflation.

Protesters, many of them young people, rallied in Ulaanbaatar's Sukhbaatar Square — home to the Government Palace — at -21 degrees Celsius (-6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, demanding "justice" against corrupt officials and for the parliament to be dismissed.

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