On Nov 17, rioters blocked the roads near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and hurled patrol bombs on the roads, posing a serious threat to public security. The rioters even used bows, bricks and arrows to indiscriminately attack police and journalists. A policeman was shot in the leg with an arrow.
A group of local residents volunteered on Saturday to clear roadblocks erected by radical protesters on Pok Fu Lam Road outside the University of Hong Kong. A mob of masked radicals, however, jeered and attacked the volunteers with firebombs. The road was eventually reopened for traffic despite the threat of violence.
A breathtaking video captures the moment when a train zooms across the world's highest railway bridge hanging above the magnificent Qingshui River Canyon.
Radical students in Hong Kong were busy making gasoline bombs, catapults and bamboo arrows on university campuses, which the city's police said on Wednesday were being turned into weapons factories.
Hong Kong lawmaker and Executive Council member Regina Ip told China Daily that the masterminds behind the city's escalating violence are in fact planning to intimidate voters so that they could have a landslide win in the upcoming District Council Election.
