Defiant Hong Kong students stage sit-in outside school of protester shot by police

Police say the teen was taken to hospital in a 'conscious state' after he was shot in the chest during city-wide protests.

Hundreds of Hong Kongers staged a sit-in on Wednesday outside the school of a protester who was shot by police Source: Xinqi Su / Twitter

Hundreds of Hong Kong students staged a sit-in on Wednesday outside the school of a protester who was shot by police as authorities said the wounded 18-year-old was now in a stable condition.

The international finance hub has been left reeling from the shooting, the first time a demonstrator has been struck with a live round in nearly four months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests.

Hong Kong was battered by the most sustained political clashes of the year on Tuesday as China celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule with a massive military parade in Beijing. 

 

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