Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong, Oct 3: Hong Kong pro-democratic protesters staged protest in the city in the early hours of Thursday, expressing their anger over a police officer’s shooting and injuring a teenager a few days back.

Anit-government activists took it to the streets of districts in the Chinese-ruled territory, throwing petrol bombs, blocking roads, setting fires, vandalizing few shops and metro stations as Hong Kong police fired water cannons and tear gas against them, trying to disperse them.

“Wherever there are protests nearby I’ll come … I’m out tonight for a simple reason. You don’t shoot a teenager at point-blank range,” said Alex Chan, a pro-democratic protester at Causeway Bay district. He added, “These protests will continue and we won’t give up.”

On Wednesday, thousands of them staged a mass peaceful protest in the city to condemn the police’s brutal action of shooting an 18-year-old secondary school student, who still remains in the hospital because of his critical condition.

The rail authority ordered to cease all railway operations in several cities before Wednesday midnight amid escalated violence in Hong Kong.

On Thursday, police said the Hong Kong Protesters‘ actions “seriously undermined public order and posed a threat to the personal safety of police officers and members of the public”.

Clinic specialists said Tsang Chi-kinfolk was in a steady condition. In excess of 100 individuals were harmed during the distress, they included, as police terminated poisonous gas and water gun to attempt to scatter nonconformists.

The city has been left reeling from the shooting, the first run through a demonstrator has been hit with a live round in almost four months of dissents, which came as China praised 70 years of Communist Party rule in Beijing.

Tsang was shot during encounters in Tsuen Wan region, after dissidents shaking posts and umbrellas encompassed police and an official discharged his weapon at short proximity into the 18-year-old’s chest. Police said the official dreaded for his life.

On Tuesday, China was celebrating its 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic with a massive military parade in capital Beijing to mark the Communist Party’s seven-decade ruling in the nation.

 

 

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