Thousands of Hong Kong Protesters Ignore Mask Ban as Violence Resumes
Protest march from the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong on Oct. 6.
Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
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Violence escalated in Hong Kong as protesters set fires and vandalized train stations and banks, pushing back against government efforts to quell demonstrations when it invoked a colonial-era emergency law.
Some rail services were suspended and businesses shuttered early on Sunday as demonstrators lobbed petrol bombs and bricks, spray-painted retail outlets and public property and destroyed banking facilities across the city. Video footage showed a bloodied man laying on a road after he was dragged out of the taxi he was driving and stomped on by a group of protesters after the vehicle hit some of them.