Hong Kong burns in night of violent protest with live rounds shot, multiple fires lit on streets, and MTR paralysed
- Elite ‘raptors’ from Special Tactical Squad fight pitched battles in smoke-filled streets with hard-core protesters
- Water cannons fire jets of blue dye at protesters while bricks and petrol bombs hurled at police, before late-night clashes on trains
Anti-government protesters are planning on Sunday afternoon to disrupt all travel routes to Hong Kong airport, after a day of chaos and violence as rampaging demonstrators lit fires and hurled petrol bombs at riot police well into the night.
Protesters are calling on the public to overwhelm road and rail links to the airport on Sunday and Monday to cause flights to be cancelled, in a hoped-for repeat of their actions a fortnight ago.
On Saturday, police fought back, well into the early hours of Sunday, at first firing rounds of blue dye from water cannons, and then sticking to their tested means of dispersal, multiple shots of tear gas, as the city marked yet another weekend of heightened violence.
Police also fired two live rounds into the air to fight off a violent mob near Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, sources told the Post, as word spread of undercover officers mingling with the demonstrators.
Across various locations, elite “raptors” from the Special Tactical Squad fought pitched battles in smoke-filled streets with hard-core protesters, or chased after them, wrestling some to the ground as they made on-the-spot arrests.