Hong Kong: police shoot, serious protester – VIDEO – Asia

A man was set on fire in Hong Kong on a day of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police. It is now in critical condition for second-degree burns on 28% of the body between arms and chest. The episode, still to be reconstructed, was reported by Rthk as happened in the early afternoon at Ma On Shan. The middle-aged man confronted a group of young activists accusing them of being "British" and not Chinese. A person would then pour him some flammable liquid and then set the flames.

Burning a "person is a totally inhuman and unforgivable act". So the Hong Kong governor Carrie Lam, regarding the case of the man victim of a dispute with pro-democracy activists, who first sprinkled him with flammable liquid and then set the flames. The Lam, urging "as soon as possible the return of calm", quoted the two people in "critical conditions": the boy hit by a bullet fired by an agent ("accident in an action of respect for the law") and of man set on fire.

Previously at least two young men would have been hit by gunshots fired by agents at Sai Wan Ho.

The most serious is a 21 year old: the boy, caught in the chest by a gunshot, was first aid and taken away that he was still conscious and then operated urgently. Currently, he is in intensive care where he is under close observation, local media report.

Hong Kong police launched five bursts of tear gas at Pedder Street, in the heart of the city with many offices, trying to disperse the protesters who have been in small groups this morning trying to block transport by creating barricades on the main streets in different districts . The anger, after a weekend with over 100 arrests, increased after the repeated gun shots fired by agents who, according to local media reports, caused at least two injuries, one of which was serious.

"It is painful to see the city fall into a police state". This is what Joshua Wong, leader of the 'umbrella movement' of 2014 and among the most prominent activists of the Hong Kong pro-democracy front, criticized the violence between protesters and police, who used very harsh methods . The agents fired pistol shots and injured at least two people, one of them seriously, while in an amateur video also relaunched by Wong we see a motorbike agent trying to invest the activists dressed in black.