The Guardian: Fire, rocks and teargas fly in day of battle at Hong Kong university
Unrest continues to escalate as protesters fight police from barricaded campus.
Hong Kong riot police and protesters have waged a day-long battle at a university, during which officers fired teargas and a water cannon and drove an armoured vehicle at demonstrators who were throwing molotov cocktails.
After more than 12 hours of clashes at Polytechnic University in Kowloon, the police warned that they would use live rounds on protesters if they did not stop their attacks. Protesters on a roof of the university used catapults as well as bows to shoot back at police, striking one officer in the calf with an arrow.
The university, which has been taken over by protesters since clashes last week, became the site on Sunday of some of the longest, tensest clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police of the last five months.
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More News On The Unrest In Hong Kong
Hong Kong campus protesters fire arrows as anti-government unrest spreads -- Reuters
Hong Kong police launch operation to flush out protesters -- AP
Hong Kong protests: police use controversial anti-riot sound device for first time, rejecting claims it is harmful -- SCMP
Campus protesters fend off police with arrows, petrol bombs as Hong Kong unrest spreads -- France 24
Hong Kong protests: riot squads surround university campus occupied by radicals after day of fierce clashes, shooting of officer with arrow and live round fired at car trying to ram police line -- SCMP
Hong Kong: Violence erupts at university campus -- DW
4 comments:
They are not rioters ,they are soldiers.
Me thinks the violence is coming from infiltrators from the chicoms as a pretext for military action.
Stephen most likely
I agree. Petrol bombing other civilians because they removed barriers? That sounds like exactly what someone would do to end support for that side
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