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Police Clash with Protesters at Hong Kong Airport, Forcing More Flight
Cancellations

VOA News

   Updated: Aug. 13, 2019, 3:06 p.m.

   Suzanne Sataline contributed to this report from Hong Kong
   Riot police clashed with pro-democracy demonstrators at the Hong Kong's
   international airport Tuesday evening, with all departing flights
   cancelled for a second straight day.

   The protestors once again took over the facility's main terminal, with
   periodic skirmishes with helmeted police wielding batons.

   Scuffles broke out between police and demonstrators as medics took an
   injured person out of the terminal. A contingent of riot police used
   pepper spray to disperse protesters as they tried to block an ambulance
   taking the man away. Police detained at least two people.

   Hong Kong's airport authority said operations had been "seriously
   disrupted."

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