- Title: HK protesters smash up train station as riot police mount search
- Date: 1st September 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 1, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SMASHING UP CLOCK AT MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY (MTR) STATION TWO MEN PULLING METAL SIGN OFF WALL VARIOUS OF MAN HITTING ILLUMINATED SIGN WITH POLE PROTESTERS HITTING TICKET MACHINE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HITTING LIGHT WITH POLE LIGHT FALLING TO GROUND VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH TICKET BARRIERS VARIOUS OF WATER SPRAYING FROM HOSE, FLOODING STATION BARRICADE DEBRIS WITH FIRE BURNING IN BACKGROUND PEOPLE LIGHTING CARDBOARD WITH FIRE FIRE BURNING ON ROAD VARIOUS OF POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ENTERING MTR STATION ARMED POLICE INSIDE STATION POLICE IN STATION HEADING TO ESCALATOR POLICEMAN WITH TEAR GAS GUN IN TRAIN DOORWAY VARIOUS OF POLICE WALKING ON PLATFORM NEXT TO TRAIN VARIOUS OF CROWDS WALKING NEAR AIRPORT PEOPLE WITH LUGGAGE WALKING PAST BARRICADE NEAR AIRPORT POLICE DRAGGING MAN OVER BARRIER POLICE CLIMBING OVER BARRIER MAN IN MASK POINTING SECURITY CAMERA AT SKY VARIOUS OF MAN SPRAY-PAINTING ON AIRPORT SIGN VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DRAGGING BARRIERS ALONG ROAD PROTESTERS BUILDING BARRICADE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE, SOME PASSENGERS WITH LUGGAGE, WALKING ON MOTORWAYS NEAR AIRPORT
- Embargoed: 15th September 2019 14:32
- Keywords: Hong Kong protest police damage MTR station train station
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AUTQUYV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Thousands of protesters blocked roads and public transport links to Hong Kong airport on Sunday (September 1) in a bid to draw attention to their fight for democracy for the Chinese-ruled city, which is facing its biggest political crisis in decades.
The protesters also vandalised a subway station near the airport, prompting riot police to move in and search the area. The wrecking of large parts of the Tung Chung mass transit railway (MTR) station saw it eventually closed, after demonstrators smashed CCTV cameras and lamps with metal poles and dismantled turnstiles. Police made several arrests outside the building.
Pro-democracy protesters had urged the public to target access to one of the world's busiest and most efficient airports, built on reclaimed land around a tiny outlying island and reached by a series of bridges, many of which became crowded with protesters and passengers on foot, instead of the usual taxis and buses.
Sunday's demonstration followed clashes overnight between police and protesters which saw some of the most intense violence since unrest erupted more than three months ago over concerns Beijing was planning to erode the autonomy granted to the former British colony when it was handed back to China in 1997.
China denies the charge of meddling and says Hong Kong is an internal affair. It has denounced the protests and warned of the damage to the economy.
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