Christmas Eve chaos in Hong Kong as police and protesters clash
25 December 2019 |
2:44 pm
Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy protesters battle at a major shopping district. The evening's unrest is the most sustained in what has otherwise been a few weeks of comparative calm for a city upended by more than six months of violent protests.
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