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Six Chinese diplomats left the U.K. ahead of a deadline to submit to local police questioning over a violent mid-October clash with protesters outside the country’s consulate in Manchester that further strained bilateral relations between the nations.

The departing officials included China’s consul general to Manchester, U.K. Foreign Minister James Cleverly said. Describing the “disturbing footage” of the mid-October incident, Mr. Cleverly said the U.K. government requested that the Chinese officials waive their diplomatic immunity to be questioned by Wednesday, but that instead they left the country.