Hong Kong, Nov. 11 -- Tensions have boiled over in the city to the business district and campuses following the shooting of a protester earlier Monday (Nov 11) morning.

Hundreds in office wear stood along main roads in Central, shouting at riot police who have turned up in the business district and calling the officers "murderers" in Cantonese.

At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, riot police fired tear gas as a group of anti-government protesters set up barricades amid a showdown.

At Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), another group of protesters set fire to barricades in a stand-off with riot police on the footbridge linking the university and Hung Hom station.

In a statement issued just past noon, the police confirmed that...