TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019

Hong Kong metro station

cleaned up by protesters

Volunteers return to remove teargas residue used by police

Activists ‘decontaminate’ Sham Shui Po MTR station yesterday (EPA)

ADAM WITHNALL

ASIA EDITOR

Members of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement were filmed cleaning up at a metro station
yesterday morning after it became the scene of clashes between protesters and police. The volunteer
cleaners turned up following an online call from protest organisers, who said the Sham Shui Po MTR station
was still “contaminated” after police fired teargas canisters in the area on Thursday.

Footage posted online by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) showed people with face masks, gloves and
tissues or wet wipes getting rid of what they said was teargas residue. At yesterday morning’s clean-up, one
volunteer identified only by his surname Chan told RTHK that he hoped the MTR Corporation would put

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