Police fired tear gas at protesters overnight, while protesters torched a vehicle, hurled petrol bombs at a police station and metro train. HK protests
Protesters and police battled through the night at university campuses and other locations only hours after police Senior Superintendent Kwong Wing-cheung said the Chinese-ruled city had been pushed to the"brink of a total breakdown".
Hundreds of commuters were seen queuing at metro stations across the city early on Wednesday after some railway services were suspended and roads closed. Protesters are angry about what they see as police brutality and meddling by Beijing in the freedoms guaranteed under the"one country, two systems" formula put in place when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Protesters were planning more demonstrations throughout Wednesday in areas including the Central business district, home to some of the world's most expensive real estate and luxury stores, across the Kowloon peninsula and in the outlying New Territories.
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