Radical protesters set barricades and started fires at Yuen Wo Road in Sha Tin in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Sunday afternoon. Police issued a warning to stop all illegal acts and leave immediately.

"The Police is using appropriate force to conduct a dispersal operation, and warn all protesters to stop all illegal acts and leave immediately," said the Hong Kong Police on their Twitter account at around 6 p.m. BJT.

Earlier on Sunday afternoon, some radical protesters also defaced the national flag and threw it into a trash bin and a river afterward, followed by recklessly damaging the facilities with hard objects, spraying water on the floor and throwing objects at the Sha Tin MTR Station.

(Cover image: Radical protesters set fire in Sha Tin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, September 22, 2019. / Reuters photo)