15-year-old boy and girl shot in the head by tear gas canisters in Tin Shui Wai

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14th November 2019 – (Hong Kong) At around 10pm this evening, rioters gathered at Castle Peak Road in Yuen Long to set up barricades and damaged the railway track of Light Rail. Meanwhile, the rear gate of Tin Shui Wai Police Station was set on fire. Riot police fired tear gas rounds in front of Kingswood Richly Plaza on Tin Wu Road in Tin Shui Wai.

At 11.35pm, two teenage male and female protesters were shot in the head by tear gas canisters. One of them, a 15-year-old teenage boy allegedly suffered from depression in skull and lost consciousness. The other girl allegedly fractured her skull. Paramedics attended to both of them before sending them to hospital.