Anti-government protesters forced Hong Kong’s international airport to suspend check-in services for the second day running on Tuesday, clashing with police late in the evening as the political crisis in the Asian financial centre deepened.
The previously mostly peaceful occupation broke into chaos late on Tuesday, with police firing pepper spray and beating protesters with batons at the entrance to the departures hall after demonstrators seized a man they accused of being a mainland Chinese police officer.
When police appeared at the departures entrance to help medical staff extract the man, protesters attacked their vehicles, sparking running battles in which officers pushed the crowd back into the terminal.