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Sit-in at school of Hong Kong protester shot by police

Schoolmates of Tsang Chi-kin, 18, who was shot in the chest by police, take part in a protest at their school. [AFP]

Hundreds of Hong Kongers staged a sit-in Wednesday outside the school of a teenage protester who was shot by police on China's National Day in a dramatic escalation of the violent unrest that has engulfed the territory for months.

The international finance hub has been left reeling from the shooting, the first time a demonstrator has been struck with a live round in nearly four months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests.

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