Armed with wooden poles and ransacked road signs, pro-democracy
protesters and their opponents fought an extraordinary battle on a Hong Kong street, exposing deep ideological fault lines coursing through the city.
Dozens of unidentified men charged onto a road where protesters had been walking and attacked them with long wooden poles on Monday night.
The men were eventually chased away, with protesters smashing the windows of a nearby building where they believed some of the attackers had taken refuge as a man inside brandished a meat cleaver.