HONG KONG MOURNS DEATH.
HONG KONG Candlelight vigils mourning a student who died on Friday after a fall during a pro-democracy rally quickly spiralled into street fires, bursts of tear gas and cat-and-mouse clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police.
Chow Tsz-lok, 22, fell from the third to the second floor of a parking lot as protesters were being dispersed by police in the early hours of Monday.
Chow, who studied at the University of Science and Technology, died on Friday — graduation day for many UST students.
UST students trashed a campus branch of Starbucks, a franchise perceived to be pro-Beijing, and rallies are expected across the territory over the weekend. “Condemn police brutality,” they wrote on the restaurant’s glass wall.
Police used a robot to detonate a suspected explosive device after at least three blasts in the area amid a standoff with petrol-bomb throwing protesters lasting hours.