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Hong Kong protesters fire arrows at cops and choke city for fourth day

Violent disturbances this week have seen black-clad protesters take on riot police, with some of the confrontations taking place around universities. [AFP]

Pro-democracy protesters challenging China's rule of Hong Kong on Thursday choked the city for a fourth straight working day, firing arrows at police, barricading roads and disrupting transport links, as schools and businesses closed.

The territory has entered its sixth month of protests, which have morphed from mass rallies into a "blossom everywhere" campaign of debilitating disruption by groups of black-clad mainly student demonstrators.

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