in Guangzhou have clashed with police overnight in the latest protest against the country’s strict Covid rules.
Footage online showed police in white hazmat suits clutching riot shields to protect themselves from debris and glass thrown at them by protesters.
Another video showed people being taken away in handcuffs.
protests took place late on Tuesday and into the early hours of Wednesday in the district of Haizhu.
One Guangzhou resident told news agency AFP that he saw around 100 police officers converge on Houjiao village in Haizhu and arrest at least three men.
Haizhu was also the scene of angry Covid protests earlier this month.
latest unrest follows a wave of protest in China over the weekend, triggered by a fire in a high-rise block in the western Xinjiang region that killed 10 people on Thursday.
Many Chinese believe long-running Covid restrictions in the city contributed to the deaths, although the authorities deny this.
That prompted people in Shanghai and Beijing and other big cities to take to the streets, demanding an end to strict Covid measures – with some also calling for President Xi Jinping to stand down.
Those protests later ebbed amid heavy a heavy police presence where demonstrations had taken place.
The country’s top security agency has since called for a crackdown on “hostile forces” and there have been reports of police contacting protesters, demanding information about where they had been.
