(UTV|COLOMBO) – Hong Kong has been left in shock after a night of violence on Sunday which saw dozens of masked men storm a train station and attack commuters.
Footage posted on social media showed dozens of men in white shirts attacking people on platforms in the district of Yuen Long.
This is the first time this kind of violence has been seen in the ongoing anti-extradition protests.
Several lawmakers questioned why police were slow to arrive at the scene.
Forty-five people were injured, with one person in critical condition.
Lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting said police had taken more than an hour to arrive.
“Hong Kong has one of the world’s highest cop to population ratio,” said another pro-democracy lawmaker Ray Chan in a tweet. “Where were [they?]”
Police on Monday said they had not made any arrests but were still carrying out investigations.
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