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Youngsters gather at Hong Kong’s Kwai Fong MTR station with water buckets and towels to clean up marks of tear gas fired during anti-government protests on Sunday
- At least seven youngsters reached Kwai Fong MTR station with buckets of water and towels on Friday morning to remove marks of tear gas firing
- Train services were unaffected and some passers-by appreciated the gesture
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Young people came up with a new form of protest in Hong Kong on Friday morning by taking their own buckets and towels to clean up Kwai Fong MTR station, where police fired tear gas during anti-government demonstrations last weekend.
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At least seven protesters joined the clean-up action responding to an online call to highlight the railway operator’s “failure” to pursue police over why tear gas was fired at the station. The online call also urged people to stop trains that had not yet been cleaned.
However, the activity did not affect train services.
Sunday was the first time riot police used tear gas against protesters inside an MTR station.
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The action of firing tear gas canisters in enclosed areas, which might have caused a considerable risk of death or serious injury, even sparked criticism from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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