Hong Kong authorities say they have seized “significant quantities of homemade explosives” and arrested more than a dozen people in raids across the city.

Separately, police were accused of overzealous responses at two protests on Sunday, arresting people and pepper-spraying journalists.

The pre-dawn raids on Sunday were in connection with an alleged campaign to get the government to close its borders with China to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Hong Kong police said.

Read more: The Guardian (UK)