WATCH: Passenger clashes with protesters at Hong Kong airport

Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News

<div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS/videos/345130909764671" data-width="auto"> </div><p><strong>(UPDATED) </strong>A passenger clashed with protesters at the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday.</p><p>The passenger, out of frustration, hit protesters blocking the departure gate of the airport.</p><p>Another protester pulled her hair.</p><p>The passenger bound for Greece said she needs to go home to get her medicine.</p><p>Protesters later clashed with police at the airport after flights were disrupted for a second day, plunging the former British colony deeper into turmoil.</p><p>The scuffles broke out in the evening between police and protesters, after an injured person was taken out of the main terminal by medics.</p><p>Hundreds of flights to and from Hong Kong were <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/08/13/19/hundreds-of-flights-canceled-in-hong-kong-despite-airports-restart">canceled</a> Tuesday even though its airport resumed operations in the morning following anti-government protests there that prompted massive flight cancellations the previous day.</p><p>Thousands of protesters, angry with the government&#x27;s refusal to fully withdraw a now-suspended extradition bill and police violence during protests, swarmed the airport.</p><p>The airport disruptions followed a three-day, peaceful sit-in at the airport&#x27;s arrivals hall from Friday to protest against the controversial bill which would allow the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong has no extradition arrangements, including mainland China. <strong>- with reports from Kyodo News and Reuters</strong></p>

<p>(UPDATED) A passenger clashed with protesters at the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday.</p>

(UPDATED) A passenger clashed with protesters at the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday.

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WATCH: Passenger clashes with protesters at Hong Kong airport

WATCH: Passenger clashes with protesters at Hong Kong airport

Jacque Manabat,

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Published Aug 13, 2019 11:52 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 14, 2019 12:54 AM PHT

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