Numbers of protesters in Hong Kong have fallen after two men thought to be undercover police officers were tied up and beaten. RamsaySky - reporting from Hong Kong airport - says many people are 'shocked' by the violent incident. Read more here:
What unfolded next was unlike anything I have ever witnessed in a building like an airport in all my years of reporting.
We all assumed this would simply be a clear-out operation, although I wondered how a situation like this - with many civilians present and thousands of demonstrators, could be dispersed. It would clearly be a big operation.When the first officers arrived - just nine or 10 of them, if that - and stepped into the main airport building, pandemonium erupted.The police drew back. The mob drove forward. Luggage, trolleys, umbrellas were lobbed like missiles at the officers.
Some of the protesters realised and ran back inside, but others tried to keep charging forward only to be beaten back.
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