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    1. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: A Best Mart 360 has been ransacked by protesters in Nathan Road, near to Yau Ma Tei MTR station http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/i4GzhkE9Uz

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    2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Residents and protesters are gathered outside Sham Shui Po Police Station in Yen Chow Street. Police are warning on a loud speaker they are taking part in an illegal assembly http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/OUnx77suWp

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    3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: A police water cannon truck rolls into Yen Chow Street in Sham Shui Po and sprays jets laced with chemicals at people by the road, hitting protesters, residents and journalists. The vehicles are later seen going into Sham Shui Po Police Station http://sc.mp/n2lno pic.twitter.com/Sqddne89Pp

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    4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Food sellers in Mong Kok who have been hit by tear gas cover their faces as they recoil from the shock http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/YAOJJk1yEy

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    5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: In a statement posted on their Facebook page, police say the coloured water fired by their water cannon had "accidentally affected the entrance and front gate of the Kowloon Mosque" during a dispersal action at around 4pm on Sundayhttp://sc.mp/n2lno 

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    6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

      #LIVE: The entrance of a store of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in Mong Kok is on fire, with thick black plumes of smoke billowing from the flameshttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1185905216249417728 …

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      Protesters have set a fire at the shuttered entrance of a Xiaomi store in Mong Kok Video: SCMP/Karen Zhang pic.twitter.com/WOt5GgNgJc
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    7. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Protesters are throwing bricks at police vehicles on Nathan Road in Mong Kok, breaking some of the windows on the vans http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/f18lOPWjWX

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    8. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Several police representatives, including Ho Yun-sing, Yau Tsim district commander, have entered Kowloon Mosque. The entrance and front gate of the building was earlier splashed with blue dye from a police water cannon http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtests

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    9. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Exit D2 of Mong Kok MTR station is on fire, with a sudden small explosion. No one was injured. One protester climbs up and vandalises the MTR sign above the exit http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/MEU6O4ho5F

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    10. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Protesters try to break into Mong Kok MTR stationhttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1185920217823625216 …

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      Protesters try to break into a closed exit of Mong Kok MTR station, as others use umbrellas to shield them from view Video: SCMP/Karen Zhang pic.twitter.com/08nblRYhq4
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      SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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      #LIVE: Protesters have forced open the shutters of a Uniso store and pulled some stock out, scattering them over the floor outside. Uniso is a mainland Chinese company http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/kFssMzJFzn

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        2. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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          SCMP News Retweeted SCMP Hong Kong

          #LIVE: Xiaomi store on fire again from petrol bombhttps://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1185930191039655938 …

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          The trashed Xiaomi store on Nathan Road is again on fire, after a protester threw a petrol bomb inside Video: SCMP/Karen Zhang pic.twitter.com/9nwbovKV8O
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        3. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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          #LIVE: Police have returned to Mong Kok, with Raptors advancing down Nathan Road http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/uZCzDQ68zJ

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        4. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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          #LIVE: A water cannon and more than 10 police vehicles are on the move in Mong Kok. At the scene of an arrest, pepper spray is used on a crowd surrounding officers who have subdued a suspect, and some journalists are hit by the irritant http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/GKDQea6Ln8

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        5. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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          #LIVE: Twenty-four lawmakers from the pro-democracy camp have issued a statement condemning police's use of a water cannon on the entrance of Kowloon Mosque, calling it a "barbaric act" and demanding an apology from the force http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtests

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        6. SCMP News‏Verified account @SCMPNews Oct 20
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          #LIVE: A @SCMPNews producer has reported she was hit twice by jets from water cannons while covering the protests, first in Tsim Sha Tsui, then in Mong Kok. She says no protesters were in the vicinity on either occasion http://sc.mp/n2lno  #HongKongProtestspic.twitter.com/SrnrCrqOXg

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        1. Pepper‏ @PepperGii Oct 20
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          Gut them out. Chase them away. No such thing as an innocuous Chinese store front.

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        1. CTLau‏ @CTLau3 Oct 20
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          Doesn’t it looks like back in 1930’s somewhere in Europe ? The diff is now, it is not local government condoned, but foreign government condone.

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