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Mong Kok streets left in disarray after Lunar New Year night of violence
All night riot sparks clean-up and warnings to avoid hawkers’ offerings
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As Mong Kok regained a sense of calm this morning it still bore the scars of a night of chaos.
Streets were burned, and pavements were ripped up to be used as crude missiles in overnight street battles with riot police.
At Soy Street, centre of last night’s violence, a street sign was wrenched from the concrete in an attempt to turn it into another weapon.


More than 40 police were injured in the violence, and 54 people had been arrested, police said.

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