The Hong Kong protesters were set upon by a masked armed mob wearing white t-shirts.
The masked men stormed Yuen Long train station.
Footage posted on social media showed dozens of men attacking people with wooden rods and metal sticks inside the station.
Forty-five people were injured, with one person in a critical condition.
The protesters were travelling back from a rally where they had already been attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Many criticised how slow the police were to respond to the attacks on protesters.
Video footage also surfaced of pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho, shaking hands with men in white and giving them the thumbs-up signal.
He said he did not know the men and was just responding to their greeting.
The men in the white t-shirts were suspected of being in organised crime syndicates.
This is a sinister turn in the pro-democracy protests.
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