Hong Kong’s New Year night of ‘rioting’ leaves Mong Kok in lockdown after street hawker crackdown descends into ugly street battles between police and protesters
Police: ‘Radical elements’ with ‘makeshift weapons and shields’ set fires set as they ran out of control creating a ‘riot’. One of Hong Kong’s busiest districts was in virtual lockdown this morning after a night of violence which saw the police open fire with two “warning shots” as protesters launched missiles and set fires as a crackdown on illegal street food hawkers escalated into what some witnesses described as a ‘riot’. Hong Kong’s government “strongly condemned” the protesters.
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