HONG KONG — Strikers and the police fought in the political core of Hong Kong on Sunday night, when thousands of pro-democracy supporters rushed round the city leader’s office, looking for barrier it and other administration offices, and officers used pepper shower to prevent them. The hostility finished weeks of comparative tranquil at the campaigners’ main street camp.
The hostility exploded rapidly after student leaders of the complaint drive insisted followers to surround city government offices onward of the working day on Monday, in an effort to force concerns to the campaigners’ demands for elected elections for the city leader.
“Edging the administration headquarters,” Nathan Law, a important participant of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, an association of university students, said from a platform in the Admiralty region where thousands of campaigners had grouped. The dispute area is a few minutes’ walk from the city government offices that the protesters have endangered to encircle.
Just few minutes later after he spoke, thousands of marchers hurried in the direction of the government offices, counting the headquarters of Hong Kong’s chief executive, the city’s top leader, where the police were equipped with blockades and anti-riot kit.
“Edging the government,” campaigners vocalized as the police, with riot shields and helmets, came out to face them at two ends of a road prominent to the chief executive’s office.
Officers elevated flags cautioning that people confronted custody if they did not leave, but the mass persisted disobedient and rushed crosswise a harbor side road and jammed the chief executive’s office.
After all this the police used pepper shower to strength back the troop, and rapidly dozens of activists lay on the grass of an nearby park getting handling from first-aid squads. Activists in masks, certain also with helmets and spectacles, passed metal barriers from the close area to form obstructions. The police later delivered cautions for the activists to dispensation and clashes broke out between officers and thousands of disobedient, prosperous protesters.
The marchers’ action finished an ceasefire that for some weeks had permitted government staff members and the chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, to go to work minutes from the protest camp.

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