AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch police used a water cannon to disperse anti-migration protesters in the Hague who began throwing rocks and bottles at police officers, a spokesperson for the Hague local government said.

She added the protesters hit with the police water cannon had broken away from the main demonstration to block the highway.

The anti-immigration protest, held just over a month before the Dutch national elections, was organised by a right-wing activist who calls herself Els Rechts and campaigns against asylum seekers and for a fair housing policy in the Netherlands.

Local media reported that thousands of people joined the protest and that some of them had set a car on fire. The ANP press agency reported that protesters had attacked police cars.

Geert Wilders, who heads the fa

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