Hong Kong streets become fresh protest battlefield on China National Day
Clashes spread from the upmarket Causeway Bay to the Admiralty area of government offices
01 October 2019 - 17:11
Hong Kong — Police here fired teargas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters throwing petrol bombs in the Asian financial hub on Tuesday as its Chinese rulers celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
Cat-and-mouse clashes spread from the upmarket district of Causeway Bay to the Admiralty area of government offices on Hong Kong island. Violence also escalated across the harbour to Kowloon and beyond to the New Territories in the most widespread unrest in nearly four months...
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