HONG KONG : Hong Kong police fired water cannon, rubber bullets and round after round of tear gas at petrol bomb-throwing protesters on Sunday in some of the most widespread and violent clashes in more than three months of anti-government unrest. Police fired tear gas from the roof of the Legislative Council building, which activists trashed and daubed with graffiti weeks ago. Protesters, many of them wearing their trademark black with face masks, took cover from the tear gas behind umbrellas, some throwing tear gas canisters back at police. One threw a petrol bomb at police in the Wan Chai metro station where an entrance was set ablaze. "I think Hong Kong is somehow at this moment the frontline between Western democracy and the dictatorship in China.... Hong Kong looks more and more like a police state."

Source: Mint September 29, 2019 11:03 UTC