Police in Hong Kong say two 'visitors' were held captive by a 'large group of radical protesters' during clashes at the city's airport - describing the incident as 'torture'. Follow the latest here as protesters and riot police clashed:
from the airport on Tuesday, with 120 flights cancelled, as thousands of demonstrators, many wearing black and covering their faces, barricaded entrances with luggage trolleys.
At the peak of Tuesday's violence, officers swinging batons and armed with pepper spray entered the terminal, with a policeman pulling out a gun at one point. Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who was at the scene, said:"Eventually riot police were deployed to help police buses full of officers get away as they were being attacked and they were dangerously close to getting their doors kicked in."
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