- Title: Hong Kong police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters
- Date: 6th September 2019
- Summary: HONG KONG, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF TEAR GAS BEING FIRED AT PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF PRINCE EDWARD STATION ARMED POLICE OFFICER STANDING ON BALCONY OF BUILDING POLICE OFFICER FIRING RUBBER BULLET AT PROTESTERS PROTESTERS LOOKING ON TWO ARMED POLICE OFFICERS ON BALCONY, ONE KNEELING PROTESTERS GATHERED IN FRONT OF BALCONY POLICE OFFICER AIMING GUN AT PROTESTERS PROTESTERS WATCHING FROM TOP OF WALL POLICE OFFICER AIMING GUN AT PROTESTERS
- Embargoed: 20th September 2019 14:43
- Keywords: Hong Kong protest MTR subway station violence tear gas
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001AVIPNBB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray on Friday (September 6) to clear protesters outside a subway station on the densely populated Kowloon peninsula, the latest clash in 14 weeks of sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations.
Hundreds gathered outside Prince Edward station in Mong Kok, one of the world's most densely populated regions, where police had fired beanbag guns and used pepper spray to clear demonstrators this week.
The protesters, many of them masked and dressed in black, took cover behind umbrellas and barricades made from street fencing. Some had broken through a metal grill to enter the station where they pulled down signs and daubed graffiti on the walls.
Skirmishes spread to the subway on Saturday (August 31), with television showing images of people being beaten as they cowered on the floor behind umbrellas. Police said they arrested 63 people aged between 13 and 36.
Some protesters alleged that people died in the clash, which the police have denied.
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