- Title: Hong Kong police, protesters in battle of tear gas, petrol boms again
- Date: 25th August 2019
- Summary: TSUEN WAN DISTRICT, HONG KONG, CHINA (AUGUST 25, 2019) (REUTERS) TEAR GAS FIRING AT PROTESTERS PROTESTER HOLDING UMBRELLA IN THE MIDST OF TEAR GAS POLICE FIRING RUBBER PELLETS AT PROTESTERS PROTESTER THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER BACK AT POLICE MORE TEAR GAS / MOLOTOV COCKTAIL THROWING PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS POLICE FIRING MORE EXCHANGE OF TEAR GAS AND MOLOTOV COCKTAIL PROTESTERS BEHIND BARRICADE MORE TEAR GAS FIRED POLICE STANDING GUARD BIG CLOUD OF TEAR GAS POLICE FIRING RUBBER PELLETS AT PROTESTERS CLASH ZONE RIOT POLICE CLEARING OUT OVERHEAD WALKWAYS PROTESTERS DISPERSING VARIOUS OF MEDIA SURROUNDING POLICE POLICE WALKING TOWARDS PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF POLICE CHARGING AT PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF POLICE ARRESTING AND PINNING PROTESTERS TO THE GROUND VARIOUS WATER CANNON VEHICLES MOVING FORWARD
- Embargoed: 8th September 2019 13:55
- Keywords: Hong Kong China tear gas clash battle protesters police
- Location: TSUEN WAN DISTRICT, HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: TSUEN WAN DISTRICT, HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001ATPSB47
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon amid running battles with brick-throwing protesters in driving rain on Sunday (August 25) after violent clashes a day earlier in which police fired tear gas for the first time in more than a week.
At least six petrol bombs were thrown by protesters, some of whom took off down narrow side streets. The water cannon, which had not been used in years of anti-government protests, could not follow.
The Chinese-ruled city's MTR rail operator had suspended some services to try to prevent people gathering but the protesters, calling for democracy for the former British colony, made it to a sports stadium in the vast container port of Kwai Chung, from where they marched to nearby Tsuen Wan.
Some dug up bricks from the pavement and wheeled them away to use as ammunition, others sprayed detergent on the road to make it slippery for the lines of police. Clashes spread in many directions.
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