Hong Kong riot
police on Saturday fired tear gas and baton-charged
protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, in another tense bout of violence.
The city has been gripped by three months of street
protests that started against a proposed extradition bill to
China but have spun out into a wider pro-democracy movement.
An uneasy peace had descended this week but that was broken on Saturday as thousands of demonstrators -- many wearing hard hats and gas masks -- marched through the industrial Kwun Tong area, where they were blocked by dozens of officers with shields and batons outside a police station.