Police open fire during protest over student’s death

A live round was fired into the air by police in Yau Ma Tei as thousands of protesters staged demonstrations in at least nine areas across Hong Kong on Friday night, mourning the death of a university student who fell from a car park earlier in the week. “A group of detectives were surrounded by protesters at the junction of Hamilton Street and Nathan Road. Being outnumbered, an officer opened fire towards the sky. There were no injuries,” a police source said, write Cannix Yau, Kimmy Chung, Chan Ho-him and Christy Leung for the South China Morning Post.

Earlier in the day, dozens of angry students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology vandalised their president’s residence and at least three cafeterias, a campus Starbucks outlet and a Bank of China branch. The chaos happened after hundreds of students gathered at 1pm for five minutes of silence for Chow Tsz-lok, who died in the morning, after suffering severe brain injuries and spending four days in hospital.

A second-year computer science undergraduate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chow was believed to have fallen from the third to second floor of a car park in Tseung Kwan O, as police carried out a dispersal operation with tear gas nearby in the early hours of 4 November.
Full report on the South China Morning Post site