Petrol bombs thrown in Hong Kong metro

By AAP Newswire

Petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station on Saturday but no one was injured as pro-democracy protesters again took to the streets angry at what they believe is Beijing's tightening grip on the city.

The Kowloon Tong station was seriously damaged in the attack, the government said in a statement.

Hundreds of protesters, many young and wearing face masks, were marching in Kowloon at the time and were headed to a district near the Kowloon Tong station.

About a dozen riot police took to the streets in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district, normally a haven for local and international shoppers, behind the marchers shortly after news of the petrol bomb attack.


The metro normally carries around 5 million people a day.




Since then there had only been small nightly protests and activists had not flagged any major action this weekend.

A small group calling itself the Silver-Haired Marchers began a 48-hour sit-in at police headquarters on Saturday, describing themselves as "old but not obsolete".


