- Title: Tear gas, petrol bombs: chaotic Saturday night in Hong Kong
- Date: 31st August 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (AUGUST 31, 2019) (REUTERS) BARRICADE BURNING WATER CANNON MOVING FORWARD RIOT POLICE MOVING FORWARD PROTESTERS HOLDING UMBRELLA TO PROTECT THEMSELVES PROTEST USING TENNIS RACKET TO THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER BACK TO POLICE PROTEST IN PROGRESS / SMOKE FROM TEAR GAS VARIOUS OF WATER CANNON MOVING FORWARD RIOT POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS AND MOVING FORWARD RIOT POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS AND RUNNING RIOT POLICE SHIELDING THEIR COLLEAGUES WHILE THEY ARREST A PROTESTER ARRESTED PROTESTER BEING BLOCKED ON THE FLOOR BY POLICE POLICE ESCORTING ARRESTED PROTESTER AWAY PROTESTERS LIGHTING ON PETROL BOMBS PETROL BOMBS ON THE GROUND PROTESTERS SHIELDING THEMSELVES WITH UMBRELLAS MOVING FORWARD PROTESTERS SHIELDING THEMSELVES WITH UMBRELLAS IN LINE THROWING TEAR GAS BACK TOWARDS POLICE / SMOKE FROM TEAR GAS PROTESTER HOLDING PETROL BOMBS AND THROWING TOWARDS POLICE PETROL BOMBS EXPLODING ON THE GROUND PROTESTERS THROWING BRICKS TOWARD POLICE AND WALKING BACK POLICE BLOCKING PROTESTER ON THE GROUND PROTESTER BLOCKED ON THE GROUND
- Embargoed: 14th September 2019 17:09
- Keywords: Hong Kong protest fire police
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Society/Social Issues,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AUJTMX3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Riot police marched on foot towards the Admiralty district in Hong Kong on Saturday (August 31) evening, followed by 20 police cars, where protesters had thrown fire bombs from flyovers, some landing close to police.
In the Wanchai bar and restaurant district, police fought running battles with protesters, beating them with truncheons.
Protesters also threw bricks dug up from pathways at police who arrested several of them.
The protests came on the fifth anniversary of a decision by China to curtail democratic reforms and rule out universal suffrage in Hong Kong, a former British colony that was returned to China in 1997.
(Production: Ebrahim Harris, Aleksander Solum, Jiang Xihao, Hyunyoung Yi, Chiara Rodriquez) - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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