- Title: Barricade burnt as Hong Kong protest heats up
- Date: 31st August 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (AUGUST 31, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS BARRICADE BURNING REPORTERS AND PROTESTERS FILMING THE BURNING BARRICADE VARIOUS BURNING BARRICADE PROTESTERS SHINING LASER BEAM LIGHT VARIOUS BURNING BARRICADE REPORTERS FILMING BURNING BARRICADE / PEOPLE LOOKING ON
- Embargoed: 14th September 2019 12:44
- Keywords: Hong Kong protests fire
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AUJR77R
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hong Kong protesters torched a pile of barricade on Saturday (August 31) after police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters on the streets.
The violence came on the fifth anniversary of a decision by China to curtail democratic reforms in the former British colony, which returned to China in 1997.
Thousands took to the streets in the afternoon on a largely peaceful, meandering rally in the rain, many joining a "Christian march" from the Wan Chai entertainment district and congregating next to the Legislative Council, stormed by activists in an earlier protest.
Other demonstrators, many wearing black and face masks, marched in the Causeway Bay shopping district.
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