Riot police used batons and pepper spray early Tuesday to disperse crowds from clashes that erupted when authorities tried to move illegal street vendors from a working-class district.
It was the worst street violence since pro-democracy protests in late 2014.
Protesters hurled bricks at police as scuffles broke out, while other demonstrators set fire to garbage bins in the streets of Mong Kok, a gritty neighborhood just across the harbor from the heart of the Asian financial center.
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