Protesters and university students erected barriers on major roads, including a tunnel entrance linking Hong Kong island with the Mekong region, and a major highway between the Mekong and the New Territories.
Thousands of students also set up barricades on the university campus, erected temporary fortifications, blocked entrances and occupied nearby roads, and stored food, bricks, petrol bombs and other homemade weapons. Upcoming clashes with the police.
Workers had to line up at subway stations across the city after a number of rail services were suspended and roads blocked. Some citizens, dressed in business attire, booed at riot police deployed on train stations.
Protesters are angry about what they consider to be excessive police actions and mainland government intervention in freedoms guaranteed under the "one nation, two regime" rule of Hong Kong, since the territory was claimed by China in 1997.
China denies the intervention and believes that Western countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, have sparked instability in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong police said the violence in the territory had reached "a very dangerous level and even caused casualties." According to the authorities, 64 people were injured in the clashes yesterday, of which two are currently in critical condition. Besides, one person died after falling from an unknown height yesterday, but no further details were provided.
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