Hong Kong police start removing protest barricades

Hong Kong Democracy protest

Pro-democracy protesters reinforce a barricade in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. AFP

HONG KONG – Hong Kong police early Monday started removing street barricades erected more than a fortnight ago by pro-democracy protesters, AFP correspondents saw.

Police had started moving in to clear barriers at the edges of the main protest site in Admiralty, catching some demonstrators unawares after their numbers had dwindled overnight.

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