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ULAN BATOR - Thousands of people staged a violent protest in Mongolia's capital on Tuesday as they voiced outrage over what they claimed were rigged elections, forcing police to fire gunshots, witnesses said.The headquarters of the former communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party was set alight, with Prime Minister Sanjagiin Bayar believed to be inside, according to the witnesses at the building.The protesters from the rival Democratic Party, which claims the MPRP bought votes and used other tactics to win Sunday's election, threw stones at firefighters who arrived to put out the blaze.However the flames appeared to be extinguished by people inside the six-storey building, with the unrest also broadcast live on the privately run Eagle Television station.Politics in Mongolia, a country of 2.6 million people sandwiched between China and Russia, has a recent history of turmoil and disputes, but violence such as that seen on Tuesday is extremely rare.As the riote...

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