An assault on pro-democracy protesters by suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded sparked a firestorm of outrage in Hong Kong on Monday, in a dramatic escalation of political turmoil plagui
ng the Chinese city.
Critics accused the city's embattled police force of taking more than an hour to reach the site and failing to arrest the attackers who stayed in the streets around the station into Monday morning.'SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT' "This is triad gangs beating up Hong Kong people," fumed legislator Alvin Yeung. "Yet you pretend nothing had happened?"
The violence broke out in the New Territories near the Chinese border, where criminal gangs and staunchly pro-Beijing rural committees remain influential. The foreign minister of self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as its own territory, supported the protesters' calls.
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