Milan police clash with protesters on second day of unrest

MILAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) Milan police clashed on Sunday with protesters throwing stones and looting shops during demonstrations ​against poor services and the ‌rising cost of living, a day after similar unrest in several Italian cities. Police in riot gear fired tear gas and used water cannons ‌after ​several hundred hooded protesters ⁠broke shop windows ⁠and set bins on fire in the area near central Piazza Duomo, sources with knowledge of the investigation told ​Reuters. More than 60 protesters were taken to the police station for further ⁠checks, the sources added. A ⁠total of 28 protesters were ​arrested after similar clashes erupted on Saturday ​in northern cities including Milan, Bologna, ‌Brescia, Bergamo and Turin, according to a police report on Sunday. The clashes had echoes of the violence in neighbouring ⁠France, where hundreds of thousands of people angered by rising costs and declining public services took ⁠to ‌the streets on Saturday in ⁠some of the country s most ​viole