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Hong Kong's defiant protesters have crippled transport links and jammed up roads causing chaos across the city for a third consecutive day.
Wednesday's actions follow fiery battles the night before at Chinese University (CUHK) in Sha Tin as police and protesters locked horns in a full-day clash, marked by petrol bombs thrown by protesters, and tear gas and rubber bullets fired by officers. Late into the night, more unrest stirred in districts across the city.  
While no confrontation has broken out at Chinese University so far, protesters have set up an elaborate roadblock in Central, the city's business hub, as well as other major thoroughfares in Kowloon Tong, Yuen Long and Tai Po.
Most of the universities in Hong Kong have announced classes will either be suspended till next week or replaced entirely with online lectures until the end of the semester. More than 80 mainland Chinese and dozens of Taiwanese students in Chinese University have been evacuated on Wednesday following the clashes yesterday.
Follow our live coverage below for the latest updates. Reporting by Sum Lok-kei, Zoe Low, Chris Lau, Elizabeth Cheung, Karen Zhang, Phila Siu, Jeffie Lam and Chan Ho-him.


As it happened: Hong Kong protesters set Cross-Harbour Tunnel tollbooth alight again as tear gas fired in Kwai Chung and Yuen Long

Petrol bombs were thrown into tollbooths of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in Hung Hom. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong protests: pitched battles on campuses as police say city verging on ‘brink of total breakdown’

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A fire rages on a sports field at the campus of Chinese University. Photo: Winson Wong

Anti-government protesters hold a lunchtime rally for a second day in Central. 12NOV19 SCMP / K. Y. Cheng

Riot police conduct a dispearsal operation and make arrests as anti-government protesters hold a lunchtime rally for a second day in Central. 12NOV19 SCMP / May Tse

Riot police conduct a dispearsal operation and make arrests as anti-government protesters hold a lunchtime rally for a second day in Central. 12NOV19 SCMP / K. Y. Cheng

Clashes break out between riot police and students protesting as they exchange tear gas and petrol bombs at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Sha Tin. 12NOV19 SCMP / Sam Tsang

Train services are suspended, leaving dozens of stranded commuters to walk after trains are stopped by objects thrown on the tracks near Sha Tin MTR Station. 12NOV19 SCMP / Winson Wong

Vice-Chancellor/President of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Rocky Tuan Sung-chi (centre) meets university students of CUHK at a confrontation site. 12NOV19 SCMP / Sam Tsang


Day of disruption in Central, leads to night-time chaos across 10 districts
Education Bureau suspends classes on Thursday and all universities in the city announce cancellations



Protesters have blocked major roads and tunnels in the city, some train stations are closed and services suspended, and buses have been cancelled. But Education Bureau refuses to close schools.


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Protesters at Chinese University set roadblocks on Tai Po Road near one of the entrances to the Sha Tin campus, blocking traffic in both directions. Some protesters and first aiders are lying down at the side of the road to rest, having been involved in confrontations with police since Monday.

Protesters break into and take control of two vans and a coach.



Roads blocked at Chinese University

Many primary and secondary schools in the North district, especially those near Sha Tin and Tai Po, have suspend classes on Wednesday.
Schools include: Kau Yan College, Sha Tin Methodist College, Carmel Pak U Secondary School, Hong Kong Taoist Association The Yuen Yuen Institute No.2 Secondary School, CCC Kei San Secondary School, PLK Tin Ka Ping Millennium Primary School and Chi Hong Primary School.
Some cite transport disruption and concerns for students’ safety as a reason, after clashes at nearby Chinese University, and in Tai Po on Tuesday night.
Several schools in other districts, including Cotton Spinners Association Secondary School in Kwai Chung, and HKMLC Ming Tao Primary School in Tseung Kwan O, are also closed.
English Schools Foundation has suspended all lessons at its member institutions for the second day running.


Schools closed across city

Public transport has been badly affected on Wednesday after the previous day’s disruption in Hong Kong.
MTR:  All services on the East Rail line are suspended. Mong Kok, Tuen Mun and Tseung Kwan O stations are closed.
Light rail routes 705, 761P and 751P have been suspended. All light rail services are running on 13 to 25-minute intervals.
 
All MTR services, except for the Airport Express, will end at 10pm.
 
Buses and road traffic:  Tolo Highway, which connects Tai Po and Sha Tin, is not open because of barricades in the road.
About 70 bus routes, including five cross-harbour routes, are suspended, including all buses that run on Tolo Highway.


Public transport in chaos

With Tolo Highway not open, and MTR’s East Rail line suspended, people living in Tai Po, Fanling and Sheung Shui are finding it extremely difficult to get to other parts of the city.


Residents stranded

Some city cleaners and passers-by try to clear Nathan Road of debris left by protesters on Tuesday.



Morning after the night before

MTR Corporation releases photos of the damage protesters caused at Kowloon Tong station during a violent rampage on Tuesday night.





MTR update: Kowloon Tong station vandalised

The MTR Corporation says protesters broke into University station overnight and trashed the station and set a train on fire.




MTR update: train trashed

A male protester at Chinese University, who is in his 30s, says police should make it clear they do not intend to return to the campus, “so students can ease their minds”. 
For the time being, he says protesters should keep the roadblocks to stop police coming back.
“Its like a battle field,” he says. “As a Hongkonger, I think we should side with Chinese University students.”


Police should stay away from university, says protester

A long line of people at Tai Wai MTR station are waiting for taxis and mini buses. Some say they have been there for more than an hour and still cannot get in a taxi, or on a mini bus.


Going nowhere fast

Trains on the Kwun Tong line are being delayed every few stops, with periodic announcements that the train in front has not yet left the next station.


MTR update: train delays

At Kwong Yuen bus station in Sha Tin, people are trying different ways to get to work as public transport is limited. 
More than 20 people are at the taxi stand, and Sarah Wong, who was first in the queue, has been waiting for a taxi for around 40 minutes. 
“So far I only saw one taxi coming to the taxi stand during this time of waiting,” says Wong, who is trying to get to her job in Shek Kip Mei. “I can’t pre-book a taxi or a van, even if I’m willing to pay HK$200 extra just to get to an MTR station.” 
Wong says she can only wait at the taxi stand because the East Rail line, which connects Sha Tin to other parts of the city, is not running.
 “Everything has stopped. This is even worse than the time of Typhoon Mangkhut, when the MTR was still operating. How can people go to work if buses are not running?” says Wong.



Stuck in Sha Tin with no taxis in sight

Amid calls from parents and teachers to suspend classes in primary and secondary schools, the Education Bureau has refused to do so on Wednesday. Despite this, multiple schools announced the suspension of lessons.
The bureau says in a statement at 7.31am that parents should decide whether their children attend school “depending on the circumstances”, and also urges schools to open campuses to take care of those who turn up.
On Tuesday, when asked about the government’s decision not to suspend classes at schools, Chief Executive Carrie Lam insisted there was a “willingness and eagerness of citizens and students to go to work and school”.
“Protesters are attempting to paralyse Hong Kong to create a stalemate in the city,” Lam said. “The government cannot recklessly stop all activities in Hong Kong, otherwise it will fall into the protesters’ trap.”


Education Bureau refuses to close schools

A small group of about 10 protesters set up roadblocks and start fires near Baptist University in Kowloon Tong. Riot police arrive to clear the barricades, but do not clash with protesters.


Baptist University roadblocks

Dozens of riot police are on Pok Fu Lam Road near HKU MTR station with six police vans nearby. Most roadblocks set up by student protesters the day before have been cleared.
Riot police are stationed on the footbridge connecting the university and the station. On Monday, protesters occupied the bridge as they blocked the road with stones, chairs and other objects. 
A police officer says they arrived at 6am, and no protesters were around. “The traffic was smooth then with roadblocks pushed aside,” the officer says. “We didn’t remove them until an hour later when a warm-hearted citizen actively began to remove them.”
Some residents greet the police. “You keep us safe. Good job!” a middle-aged man says as he walks past.



All quiet at University of Hong Kong

Yuen Long MTR station has been closed because protesters are again vandalising the station, the rail operator says. 
On the West Rail line, services between Tuen Mun and Kam Sheung Road are suspended.
The entire East Rail line, from Hung Hom to Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau, remains suspended.
At the Tai Shui Hang station on the Ma On Sha Line, objects have been thrown onto the track and services are affected. Trains are running at 15-minute intervals between Shek Mun and Tai Shui Hang, at 7-minute intervals between Wu Kai Sha and Tai Shui Hang, and at 5-minuter intervals between Tai Wai and Shuk Mun.


MTR services update

Tempers fray as commuters try to cram into increasingly packed and delayed MTR trains. One man on a train towards Whampoa on the Kwun Tong line shouts, “everyone is stuck, taxis are asking HK$200 as a base and none of the buses are working” as he is jostled by more passengers trying to get on.
 



Commuters getting angry

A 12-year-old Form One student, surnamed Cho, is trying to get to school in City One in Sha Tin from Kwong Yuen housing estate, despite his school announcing that classes are suspended for the day.
“My dad asked me to go to school regardless,” Cho says, but admits he is worried about what might happen on his way there.
“I’m worried if those black-clad people will appear, blocking roads or smashing car windows,” he says.


Trying to get to school

The student union at Chinese University says its lawyers will apply for a court injunction barring police from entering the Sha Tin campus without a warrant. Students also want police not to use crowd control weapons unless asked by school management. 


Chinese University students seek court injunction against police

A protester on a bridge overlooking Tolo Highway near Chinese University stands near graffiti that says: “It is you who made us no longer peaceful.”

Hundreds of protesters are gathered at Chinese University, following a chaotic day on campus. Some rest on a footbridge overlooking the blocked highway, others rest next to it.
 



‘You made us this way’

Commuters across the city are struggling to get to work, with buses, trains, and roads all affected by the third weekday protest in a row.




Transport chaos leaves commuters stuck across city

The Hospital Authority (HA) announces that some hospital and clinical services, including elective surgeries, may be affected because staff cannot get to work on time because of the traffic disruption. However, services at the accident and emergency departments and inpatient services at public hospitals are largely operating as normal.
“HA staff who cannot report for duty as scheduled should inform their supervisors concerned immediately for flexible staff deployment and contingency duty rearrangement,” the authority says. “HA would like to express its appreciation to staff who may need to work additional hours beyond their normal duty.”


Medical services hit by protest

Trains services between Kwun Tong and Tiu Keng Leng on the Kwun Tong line have been suspended because some people are stopping train doors from closing, the MTR Corporation says.


MTR update: service suspension

Ko, 50, who works in the legal profession, has transferred from Kowloon Tong to Prince Edward on the MTR to try and get to Yuen Long. 
“There was only one entrance open at Kowloon Tong, and I still don’t know how I will get to Yuen Long,” she says.
Ko says emotions are running high on all sides, but says she puts more of the blame on protesters and students. “They said if they don’t protest there will be no more Hong Kong, but the way they are doing it now, there is already no more Hong Kong,” she says.
She also disagrees with police firing tear gas into Chinese University on Tuesday. “The government was wrong there, but the students also need to know they should not have continued to escalate their violent actions,” she says.


‘Blame for disruption on both sides’

As the city’s rail services announce suspensions and station closures, those facilities still open see a huge increase in passenger numbers. In Prince Edward, hundreds are queuing just to get on to an already crowded platform.

A long line forms to enter Prince Edward station as only two ticketing gates appear to be working. Some passengers turn back as they reach the platform for trains to Tiu Keng Leng and Central as there is barely any floor space to stand on.



Crowds building at MTR stations

Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong is closed on Wednesday after protesters vandalised mall facilities and trashed shops on Tuesday night. 




Festival Walk trashed by protesters

More than a dozen riot police occupy the junction of Argyle Street and Nathan Road, and begin to clear roadblocks left overnight.
Riot police have arrived in Mong Kok on Wednesday morning to clear up the barricades set up by protesters #HongKongProtests
  Video: SCMP/Karen Zhang pic.twitter.com/DgFaHBGp44
  — SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) November 13, 2019


Police arrive at Nathan Road

Police officers arrive at Prince Edward MTR station to help maintain order as hundreds of people crowd onto the platform to wait for trains.
Yip, who works in Wan Chai, says it took him 15 minutes to enter the station and reach the platform, and he waits another 15 minutes before the train arrives. 
“I already planned ahead and left for work early. But I can understand the situation and I don’t feel inconvenienced,” he says.  
Hong Kong’s MTR experiences major service suspensions and station closures on Wed, Nov 13. In Prince Edward, hundreds are queuing just to get on to an already crowded platform. #HongKongProtests
  Video: SCMP/Zoe Low pic.twitter.com/FYq0cWisb0
  — SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) November 13, 2019


Police at Prince Edward MTR station

In a bus station outside Tai Wai MTR station, hundreds of people wait for a minibus heading to Tsuen Wan. Lines of people spill over into a traffic lane inside the terminus, leaving a small space for vehicles to pass by. 
Carmen Tse, a 22-year-old kindergarten teacher, has waited for at least 1½ hours for the minibus. “I feel really helpless. The Education Bureau refuses to announce class suspension, but many pupils actually could not get to school,” Tse says.
It usually takes Tse an hour to travel from Tai Wai to Tsuen Wan by bus, but she expects it to take 2½ hours today. “Hong Kong is in such a state ... as well as the situation in Chinese University on Tuesday night, I think it is really crazy for people still going to work now,” she says.
James Lau, a clerical worker, also plans to take an unusual route to his office in Kowloon City. He hopes to get onto the minibus to Tsuen Wan, where he can take the MTR to Prince Edward, then walk to his office. He usually takes a direct bus from Tai Wai to Kowloon City.
“I thought I might need to spend an extra time, of half a day, to get to work,” he says. “Now I’m just trying my best to get to work.”



Spending hours just getting to work

An MTR worker says a train on the Kwun Tong line on the Prince Edward platform, originally heading towards Tiu Keng Leng, is now only stopping at Choi Hung.
The train has been delayed at the platform for more than 20 minutes because a train at the next station is unable to leave, she says. She tells the Post she had to walk from Kwun Tong to Lam Tin to get to work at Prince Edward.


MTR workers caught up in travel delays

the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union, which has repeatedly called for the Education Bureau to suspend classes, slams the government for neglecting its responsibilities by refusing to halt lessons at schools on Wednesday. It says the decision has “disregarded the safety of pupils and teachers”.
In a statement it adds: “In face of uncertainties of traffic services across Hong Kong, [Chief Executive] Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s government has turned a blind eye. The PTU is outraged by the government’s attitude, completely neglecting the safety for teachers and students.”


Carrie Lam turning blind eye to safety of pupils, says teachers’ union

An MTR worker puts up a sign saying passengers can get refunds on train fares by by tapping their Octopus cards upon leaving the station. One man who sees the sign says: “Even if I leave, I can’t get to where I want to be.”



Nowhere to go

Frustrated passengers question an MTR worker who has come to inform people there are no longer trains on the Kwun Tong line, but that trains to Central are still working. The ticket gates are all closed and a queue of about 50 passengers forms behind them. Meanwhile, a new line forms at the only remaining working ticket gate.
Frustrated passengers at Prince Edward Station questioning a MTR worker who informed them there are no trains on the Kwun Tong line, but trains to Central are still working. But the ticket gates are all closed and a pileup of about 50 passengers has formed
  Video: SCMP/Zoe Low pic.twitter.com/qomnQPwgw7
  — SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) November 13, 2019


Frustration builds at MTR station

Police officers stand on a footbridge connecting Hung Hom MTR station and Polytechnic University, where protesters vandalised facilities on Tuesday. Entrances to the campus are blocked by barricades, and a few protesters can be seen at the entrance.



Entrances blocked at Polytechnic University

A staff member at a Fortress store on Argyle Street clears shattered glass from the pavement after someone smashed a window overnight. The word “Sorry” has been spray-painted on the window. When asked who had done it, the worker smiles and says: “I don’t know. I don’t dare to say because I didn’t see. Everything is possible. Maybe our people did this carelessly.”



‘Sorry’ for smashing your window

The entire Kwun Tong line has been suspended because people are stopping trains from running at multiple stations, the MTR says.


MTR update: Kwun Tong line

More Hong Kong schools announce the suspension of classes, including top secondary schools St Paul’s Co-educational College in Mid-Levels, Diocesan Boys’ School in Mong Kok, and Ying Wa College in Sham Shui Po.
The pro-establishment Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers says in a statement it “regrets” the government’s refusal to suspend classes on Wednesday, a decision which “put schools in a difficult position”. It also urges schools to halt lessons of their own accord, depending on students’ safety considerations.
Earlier, the pro-democracy Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union called for a suspension of classes and accused the government of “disregarding students’ and teachers’ safety”.


Education update: more schools close

Protesters at Chinese University say the police’s special tactical squad, also known as the Raptors, has been spotted at Tolo Harbour near the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. “Gear up! There are Raptors!” one protester yells.



Tactical police spotted at Chinese University

Services at three blood donor centres, in Yuen Long, the University of Hong Kong, and Polytechnic University, have been suspended, according to the Hospital Authority. The Authority says the opening time of other donor centres might also be delayed and reminds citizens to call the centres beforehand.


Blood donor centres closed

A teacher at a New Territories secondary school, who does not want to be named, criticises the Education Bureau for waiting until 7.31am on Wednesday to announce that parents can decide for themselves whether they want their children to go to school.
“When the announcement was made, most of the students were either on their way to school or were already at school,” he says.
For those students who made it to school, many of their parents end up returning to pick them up and take them home. The teacher says the Education Bureau should have known what the traffic situation would be like on Wednsday morning, and any announcements should have been made on Tuesday night.


Teacher critical of Education Bureau

Chinese University student union president Jacky So has lodged an urgent bid in the High Court to stop police from entering the university’s campus in Sha Tin. Senior counsel Audrey Yu seeks direction from Mr Justice Wilson Chan Ka-shun in a close-door hearing, which will resume at 5pm.
So says the riot police are out of control. “The university’s president wanted to negotiate with the police, but he was also tear gassed when he was leaving,” he says. “This shows that police just fired tear gas without considering who is the target.”
The union president also says some trees in the campus caught alight because of the firing of tear gas. “The environment of the campus was seriously damaged ... so many students were injured that I’ve lost count of it, and some were seriously wounded,” he says, adding the  university could have been more active in helping students after clashes broke out on Monday.


Student union goes to court

Passengers trying to travel towards Central settle in for a long wait at Prince Edward MTR station, where it has been more than 30 minutes since the last train departed. Meanwhile, the crowd on the concourse still remains, but passengers are still unable to pass through ticket barriers.
An IT worker surnamed Leung, who lives in Wong Tai Sin and works in Central, says he has already told his office he will be taking a day off. “I’ve waited for an hour and a half, I’m going to start walking home in a moment,” he says.    



Stuck in Prince Edward

The MTR Corporation publishes a map of all the problems on the city’s network. It can be found here, and will be updated regularly, the rail operator says. 



MTR update: station closures

Speaking ahead of the Legislative Council meeting, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung says 30 districts in Hong Kong have been hit by violent protests, which included road blockades, arson and vandalism.
He raises serious concerns over the hurling of petrol bombs onto train compartments and a moving train by protesters.
“I call on citizens to distance themselves from these violent acts,” says Cheung. “Violence is not a way out and would never succeed. The SAR government is determined and capable of curbing the violence and will fully support the police to enforce the law decisively.”



Violence will never succeed, says city’s deputy leader

Angry passengers surround MTR workers who come to help one woman who felt uncomfortable after standing for at least an hour at Prince Edward MTR station.
Passengers ask if there are actually any trains going to Central, and if not, why the station does not just close. One MTR worker attempts to explain the situation to a passenger at the front of the line, but other passengers demand he talk to everyone there, but workers claim the station’s public address system is broken.



Angry passengers surround MTR worker

Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu says Tuesday’s protests were more serious than before, despite fewer people taking part at the different locations.
He also says there is no place in the city beyond the long arm of the law. “The police force has a legal responsibility to take action when [someone] breaks the law in Hong Kong,” Lee says. “Universities should not be a place which breed violence.”



No place to hide, security chief tells protesters

Tensions are running high in Yuen Long on Castle Peak Road as dozens of riot police, many armed with long shields, arrive. The area has seen violent clashes between protesters and police in the past few months, and police say through a loud speaker that hundreds of people on the streets should leave immediately, because they are taking part in an unauthorised assembly.
“We the police will take action soon. We don’t want you to get hurt,” an officer says.


Tensions flare in Yuen Long

Asked how he views attempts to liken the confrontations at Chinese University on Tuesday, to the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, John Lee says one has to put the incident in perspective.
He says protesters threw projectiles from the bridge over Tolo Highway on Tuesday, which posed serious danger to public safety.
“When they [police] tried to do what they are allowed to do under the law, they were under attack,” he says. “Petrol bombs were thrown at them, so they must act in order to ... defend themselves. That is what we saw on television.”
Asked why police officers would fire tear gas at the direction of Chinese University president Rocky Tuan, who was there to mediate, Lee says there were rioters behind Tuan who hurled objects at the police.


Security chief says police were just ‘defending themselves’

Education minister Kevin Yeung Yun-hung denies allegations that the government’s refusal to suspend classes on Wednesday is an attempt to “save face”, saying traffic conditions varied across districts.
“We think our current system allowing schools to make school-based decisions, and parents to make decisions [whether] to go to school or not should remain,” he says. “It is different from a typhoon when the whole of Hong Kong is influenced.“
Yeung says the government will monitor the overall situation to make any necessary decisions.


Education update: minister defends schools decision

Tensions at Prince Edward station continue to rise as angry passengers question a man who says he is an MTR employee, but is not dressed in uniform. As a train to Central arrives, more scuffles break out as some continue to keep the doors from closing, and two women who argue with the people blocking doors are forced out of the train and station.

Elsewhere, people are waiting in long queues at Mong Kok minibus stops on Tung Choi street to Kwun Tung and Kowloon Bay, including a Hong Kong island resident surnamed Chow, who was supposed to be at work by 9am.
Chow, who left home at 8am, says it took 2 hours for him to travel from Shau Kei Wan to Yau Ma Tei because the MTR was very slow, and he got lost looking for the bus stop. 
“I was going to take Kwun Tong line but the whole line is stopped,” he says. “So I had to transfer at this stop, which I’ve never taken before.” 


Passengers clash in Prince Edward

Petrol bombs are seen dotted around Chinese University, where police and protesters faced off near a bridge on Tuesday.
The bridge is one of only a few routes into the campus, and offers protesters a higher vantage point, from which they are able to drop objects onto the Tolo Highway and East Rail line tracks below.



Stash of petrol bombs

Shue Yan University announces it will postpone all five of its graduation ceremonies, originally scheduled to take place next week from Tuesday to Thursday, because of the current social atmosphere and an attempt to guard graduates’ safety.
The university’s deputy president, Hu Fai-chung, says in a letter to students, alumni and staff: “We have witnessed young people who passed away or were seriously injured by live rounds, a student of ours who was severely burnt during a public event, as well as people of different political affiliations getting into quarrels and start harming each other, which has been saddening and heart-wrenching.”


University postpones graduation ceremonies

MTR announces that the entire Tsuen Wan line, running between Tsuen Wan and Central, has been suspended. The East Rail line is also closed, while services between Tsuen Wan West and Tuen Mun have been suspended. 
On the Kwun Tong line, trains are not running between Kwun Tong and Tiu Keng Leng. Trains are also not running between Po Lam and Tseung Kwan O, nor between Sunny Bay and Tung Chung.



MTR update: Tsuen Wan line

The Jockey Club has cancelled tonight’s Happy Valley race meeting, with club officials deciding it was in the interests of safety to do so. It is the second time in the past two months a card at the city track has been aborted at the last minute, after the meeting on September 18 was also scrapped over safety concerns.


Race meeting cancelled

A Legislative Council meeting is suspended after president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen orders Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai to leave the chamber. Wu was questioning security chief John Lee over the police’s handling of arrested protesters, but Lee went on to condemn protest violence.
Wu was warned several times by Leung after he became frustrated by Lee’s answer. After the Legco meeting is suspended, pan-democrats heckle Lee as the minister is escorted out of the chamber by security guards.
“You have blood on your hands, John Lee,” the pan-democrats chant. “It’s you who turned Hong Kong like this.”
Hong Kong's security minister John Lee is surrounded by angry pro-democracy lawmakers at the legislature, who accuse him of having blood on his hands, referring to the injuries the city has seen during the anti-government protests. #HongKongProtests
  Video: SCMP/Kimmy Chung pic.twitter.com/F97eTbn1Gy
  — SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) November 13, 2019


Legislative Council suspended

More than 80 mainland Chinese students at the university leave the Sha Tin campus on Wednesday morning amid clashes between police and protesters.
They gather at a pier on Science Park Road near the Marine Police North base, waiting for coaches to take them to mainland China. A group of black-clad men appear and the mainland Chinese students call police, who dispatch two boats to transport them to Sai Kung, where the students are picked up by coaches.


Police evacuate mainland students from Chinese University

Police and protesters are facing off in Yuen Long at the scene of an intense clash on Castle Peak Road at about 9.30pm on Tuesday, after protesters built barricades with bricks and blocked traffic in both directions.
Protesters then moved west into Tai Tong Road and Kau Yuk Road, removing metal roadside railings and used them to build barricades. 
Lam Siu-lin, 67, who lives behind Kolour shopping centre, said she was scared when watching masked protesters destroy railings, remove rubbish bins and bus stop posts, and throw them on the roads. 
“They were very loud and meddled around for a few hours,” she said, while watching through the window of her home. “I saw people flee as the police moved in.”



Black flag raised in Yuen Long

Responding to lawmakers’ question during the Legislative Council meeting before it is suspended, Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu says claims anti-government protesters were killed by police during an operation inside Prince Edward MTR station on August 31 were “groundless”.
Asked if all passengers who were beaten by police on August 31 were rioters, Lee says: “Police officers had no choice but to use appropriate level of force to enforce the law, depending on actual circumstances.” 


Claims police killed protesters inside MTR station ‘groundless’, says security chief

For the third day in a row, a crowd gathers in Central at the junction between Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central. “Stand with Hong Kong” they chant.



Protesters back in Central

Outside Baptist University in Kowloon Tong, a man walks up to several protesters to ask them to remove barricades near to Baptist Hospital, which is next to the campus. The man fears hospital services will be affected.
At first, an angry protester responds: “Why don’t you talk to [Chief Executive] Carrie Lam about this?”
Minutes later, a different protester tells reporters at the scene she is sorry about the inconvenice, and says they did so because two Baptist University students were arrested outside the campus earlier in the morning. She promises to remove some barricades that might block access to the hospital.



Protesters agree to move Baptist University barricades

In an internal email on Wednesday, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) says a special shuttle bus service from the school to Elements shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui - where the cross-border bus station to Shenzhen is located - has been arranged for staff and students who want to leave the campus.
The tension between local and mainland Chinese students has intensified as the protests roll on. Last week, a mainland Chinese student at HKUST was assaulted, while the office of a mainland academic was smashed. The incidents come after the death of 22-year-old HKUST student Chow Tsz-lok, who fell from a car park near a confrontation between police and protesters in Tseung Kwan O.
“While we are not aware of any imminent threat to campus safety, we understand some staff and students have the desire to leave campus,” the email reads. “Please rest assured that the University will be flexible in dealing with academic matters for all staff and students, and should not worry about these issues.”
The shuttle bus is running every 15 minutes from 10am to 4pm on Wednesday, according to HKUST.


University busing mainland Chinese students to safety

Scores of protesters are blocking the road near the entrance to the Cross Harbour tunnel in Hung Hom, with poles and other projectiles, and use petrol bombs to set the barricade on fire.
