Hong Kong police shoot teen as protest violence escalates

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police shot a teenager on Tuesday, the first time a protester has been hit by live ammunition during four months of demonstrations, as the Chinese-ruled city was rocked by widespread unrest on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.

In cat-and-mouse clashes that spread from the upmarket district of Causeway Bay to the Admiralty area of government offices on Hong Kong island, police were pelted with petrol bombs and responded by firing tear gas and water cannon.

Police said an officer shot an 18-year-old man in the shoulder in the Tsuen Wan area of the New Territories with a live round. Protesters have previously been hit before with bean bags rounds and rubber bullets and officers have fired live rounds in the air.
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“Shot in the shoulder area”, there are lots of pictures of this and video I have heard, I heard the student is in critical condition. Some reports say “shot in the chest”, so hopefully, the student can survive. I saw pictures, it looked like it was in the collarbone area to me.
 
I hope the student makes a full recovery. I read earlier that he wasn’t thought to be critically hurt, but I did wonder because being shot in the chest/shoulder area doesn’t tend to be “non-critical”.

No surprises that things are so heated, especially today. I hope there are as few injuries as possible. All the violence sounds horrendous.
 
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I just read on the Guardian liveblog that two people are critically injured, one is the student who was shot. 51 people have been injured altogether, from age 11 to 75. The protests are ongoing but the liveblog has stopped updating for now.

www.theguardian.com

Hong Kong protester shot in chest as China National Day demos intensify – as it happened

Violent protests break out across Hong Kong, overshadowing celebrations in Beijing to mark 70 years of Communist party rule
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The politically correct party line is that colonialism is always bad and all former colonies must be granted independence…generally this is true… but Hong Kong is one of several examples where I truly believe the people of Hong Kong would have been much better off remaining a British dependency…
 
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