Police in Hong Kong have arrested more than 100 people, including two prominent student leaders, while breaking up a protest camp in the city’s Mong Kok district.
Fresh scuffles broke out as authorities moved into the area to clear the main body of one of the major pro-democracy protest sites.
Police wearing helmets and brandishing batons moved in to protect city workers as crowds surged forward to stop them tearing down barricades at the largest part of the Mong Kok site.
Protesters said the movement’s student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were arrested.
“If we lose here, we won’t lose our heart. We can go somewhere else [to occupy]. It doesn’t need to be here,” said Kelvin Ng, a 21-year-old protester.
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