HK police fire tear gas, blue water jets at petrol-bomb throwing protesters

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Police warns the protesters to stop their illegal acts and leave the scene immediately. FMTNews

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Riot police use blue water cannon to help identify protesters later, in Hong Kong.

One water cannon caught fire after being hit by a petrol bomb. The water cannon fired blue jets of water, used elsewhere in the world to help identify protesters later. On July 1, the anniversary of the city’s 1997 return to China, protesters wearing hard hats, masks and black shirts laid siege to the Legislative Council building and swarmed inside.

“Sino-British Joint Declaration is VOID,” one placard read in the protest outside the British Consulate.“One country, two systems is dead,” protesters shouted in English under umbrellas shielding them from the sub-tropical sun, some carrying the colonial flag also bearing the Union Jack. “Free Hong Kong.”

It has accused foreign powers, particularly the United States and Britain, of fomenting the unrest and told them to mind their own business.Hong Kong island was granted to Britain “in perpetuity” in 1842 at the end of the First Opium War. Kowloon, a peninsula on the mainland opposite Hong Kong island, joined later, after the Second Opium War.

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