Chinese troops have emerged from a Hong Kong barracks to remove protester barricades in a rare appearance on the city's streets that has spooked democracy activists and was slammed as potentially violating the law. READ MORE:* Hong Kong uni students improvise weapons, walls as they await police action* Hong Kong university campus turns into night-time battlefield* Hong Kong's leader 'would resign if she could'AP In this image made from video, People's Liberation Army soldiers, with brooms, arrive to clean up the protest area at Hong Kong Baptist University. A Hong Kong government spokesman said it had not requested the PLA's help and they had come out voluntarily. NG HAN GUAN/AP A protestor throws a molotov cocktail at police near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The woman said she was born in Hong Kong and started to cry: "This is not Hong Kong, this is terrible."

Source: Stuff November 17, 2019 02:03 UTC