Petrol bombs and tear gas scar Hong Kong streets as police, protesters clash

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VIDEO: The moment a robot detonates a suspected bomb in Kowloon HongKongProtests (Video: Reuters / The Stand News, APTN)

One of the water cannons"accidentally affected" the entrance of the Kowloon Mosque in the Tsim Sha Tsui area, police said.

Along the march route, protesters trashed metro stations and hundreds of shops, throwing goods onto the streets. Several Chinese banks were targeted. By nightfall only small groups of protesters remained, with one group throwing petrol bombs down a street towards police who responded with tear gas. Large numbers of riot police guarded several intersections.

Hong Kong has been battered by months of often massive and violent protests over concerns Beijing is tightening its grip on the city, the worst political crisis since Britain handed the city back to China in 1997. A protester prepares to throw a petrol bomb outside the Tsim Sha Tsui police station in the Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong on Oct 20, 2019.

Protesters are angry at Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam for what they see as her failure to protect those freedoms from an encroaching Beijing, imposing colonial-era emergency powers, and allowing what they say is excessive force by police.

 

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