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Hong Kong police report overnight arson and vandalism, arrest 15-year old

Police also said they received reports that five people threw petrol bombs at a Japanese restaurant on the street level of a shopping mall in Cheung Sha Wan

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Police guard in front of a bus stop on Dec. 9, 2019, in Hong Kong, the morning after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators crammed into Hong Kong's streets in a mass show of support for the protest movement entering its seventh month | Photo: AP/PTI

Donny Kwok | Reuters
Hong Kong police said they arrested three people in connection with arson and vandalism in Kowloon late Wednesday.

In a news release on Thursday morning, the police said three people - a 15-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man - were arrested in connection with vandalising public buses.

A fourth person escaped, police said.

According to police reports the four boarded buses, pressed the emergency buttons, then began smashing windows with hammers.

Police also said they received reports that five people threw petrol bombs at a Japanese restaurant on the street level of a shopping mall in Cheung Sha Wan. There were