An online video shows a man in a green T-shirt who has just been assaulted and sprayed with an unknown solution. Someone then helps him clean up. As he walks away he shouts, “you are not Chinese”. A crowd responds, “we are Hongkongers”. He returns after someone shouts foul language at him and a dispute ensues. He is then doused with flammable liquid and set alight.
A police source says the injured man has been taken to Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin for treatment. He has second degree burns on 28 per cent of his body, mainly on his chest and arms.