(13 Aug 2019) Protesters toppled trolleys and pelted cars with projectiles outside Hong Kong airport on Tuesday before riot police moved in and made arrests.
Pro-democracy demonstrators severely crippled operations at Hong Kong's international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights as the city's pro-Beijing leader warned that the protesters had pushed events onto a "path of no return."
After a brief period early in the day when flights were able to take off and land, the airport authority suspended check-in services for departing flights as of 4:30 p.m. Departing flights that had completed the process would continue to operate.
It said it did not expect incoming flights to be affected, although dozens were already cancelled. The authority advised people not to come to the airport, one of the world's busiest transport hubs.
More than 200 flights were cancelled Monday and the airport was effectively shut down with no flights taking off or landing. Passengers have been forced to stay in the city while airlines struggle to find other ways to get them to their destinations.
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