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		</div><p>Police fired tear gas at protesters who disrupted morning trains onTuesday for the second day in a row as Hong Kong’s five months of anti-government demonstrations turned increasingly violent.</p>
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<p>Protesters and police faced off in and around several university campuses as classes were cancelled.</p>
<p>Subways were partially shut down, and passengers on one commuter train disembarked short of the station and were escorted along the tracks in video shown on Hong Kong television.</p>
<p>Recent weeks have been marked by escalating vandalism against shops and train stations along with assaults by both protesters and pro-Beijing supporters on the other side.</p>
<figure id="attachment_143958" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-143958" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-143958" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/5BEFA35A-C668-4C6D-85F0-2EA49F9D48DA.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-143958" class="wp-caption-text">The demonstrations have divided the former British territory</figcaption></figure>
<p>Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, speaking to news media after a weekly meeting with advisers, called the blocking of the morning commute “a very selfish act.”</p>
<p>“People from different sectors in society are holding fast to their positions and refusing to concede to violence or other radical actions,” she said.</p>
<p>“I hereby express my gratitude to those who are still going to work and school today.”</p>
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<p>On Monday, a police officer drew his gun during a struggle with protesters, shooting one in the abdomen.</p>
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<p>In another neighborhood, a person was set on fire after an apparent argument.</p>
<p>The Hong Kong hospital authority said both were in critical condition.</p>
<p>Video of another incident showed a policeman on a motorcycle riding through a group of protesters in an apparent attempt to disperse them.</p>
<p>Police say those events are being investigated but defend the officers’ actions as necessary for their own safety.</p>
<p>Lam pledged Monday to stop the violent protests in comments suggesting harsher legal and police measures could be coming.</p>
<p>The protests initially began over a proposed law that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China, where they could face opaque and politically sensitive trials.</p>
<p>Activists saw the bill as another sign of an erosion in Hong Kong’s autonomy and civic freedoms, which China promised would be maintained for 50 years under a “one nation, two systems” principle when the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997.</p>
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