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Hong Kong leader condemns riots

(Reuters) –Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters at a hastily called news conference on Tuesday (February 9) that the city’s government strongly condemned the violence which took place in the early morning. “There was a riot in Mong Kok in the early hours of today. A few hundred mobs attacked police officers and the media in Mong Kok. They damaged police cars and public properties, committed acts of arson, threw bricks and other […]