Attackers stormed a train at Yuen Long station and assaulted passengers with pipes, poles and other objects.
Hong Kong police faced criticism on Monday for an apparent failure to protect anti-government protesters and passersby from attack by what opposition politicians suspected were gang members at a train station over the weekend.
She condemned violent behaviour of any kind and said she had been shocked by the clashes at the station, adding that police would investigate fully. Some politicians and activists have linked Hong Kong’s shadowy network of triad criminal gangs to political intimidation and violence in recent years, sometimes against pro-democracy activists and critics of Beijing.
"I think that President Xi of China has acted responsibly, very responsibly... I hope that President Xi will do the right thing, but it has been going on a long time, there’s no question...” Lawmaker Cheuk-ting, who was wounded in the face and hospitalised, said the police ignored his appeals to them to intervene to prevent bloodshed. Reuters“I won’t speculate on why they didn’t help immediately.”
“We will pursue at all costs to bring the offenders to justice,” he told reporters, while pledging to restore public confidence in the police force. “We can’t say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you,” said Yau Nai-keung, an assistant police commander. “We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in.”
But the protesters are demanding its formal withdrawal and urged city leader Lam to quit – something she refuses to do.
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