HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities shut down government offices in the city’s financial district for the rest of the week after a day of violence over an extradition bill.
If the Bill endorsed, it would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.
On Thursday a few hundred protesters milled around with some sorting their supplies of face masks and food as a widespread cleanup around the city’s legislature took place.
Security remained tight with scores of uniformed police with helmets and shields in the area, while a long row of police vans were stationed alongside. Plain clothes police officers checked identification of morning commuters.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray in a series of skirmishes on Wednesday to clear demonstrators from the city’s legislature. It was some of the worst violence in Hong Kong since Britain handed it back to Chinese rule in 1997.
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority said 72 people had been hospitalized by 10 p.m. on Wednesday.
(Agencies)
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