Flights Cancelled After Hong Kong Protesters Block Airport Roads
Police clear barricades set up on a road by protesters as passengers walk with their luggage to Hong Kong International Airport on September 1, 2019. Philip FONG / AFPMore than a dozen flights were cancelled Sunday as thousands of pro-democracy activists blocked routes to Hong Kong’s airport, a day after protesters and police fought pitched battles in some of the worst violence seen in the city since unrest began three months ago.
Stranded travellers were forced to abandon their lifts and drag their luggage along the airport road.Sunday’s action is the latest in three months of increasingly violent protests sparked initially by opposition to a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, but which morphed into a broader anti-government movement.
On Sunday city sanitation workers were seen clearing debris and removing graffiti after a night of pitched battles between protesters and police. Video footage captured by local media showed police charge a crowd cowering inside a train carriage — with one man, drenched in pepper spray, crying in anguish as he tried to protect his female friend.“The police are a licenced mob,” Kwok Ka-ki, a pro-democracy lawmaker, told AFP.
“Escalating violence and progressively lethal weapons of protestors, the safety of police officers and… the public is seriously threatened,” police said in a statement.
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