HONG KONG: Hundreds of police armed with chainsaws and boltcutters made a fresh assault on protest barricades in Hong Kong on Tuesday, a day after a similar attempt backfired as demonstrators reinforced their defenses.

Officers made a dawn raid at one rally site in the financial hub’s bustling shopping district and hours later cleared away a second set of barricades at the edge of the main protest encampment near the city’s government headquarters.

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