The angry population burns jeeps and military trucks. At midnight the first military convoy of tanks appears at Tiananmen Square. Panic moves through the crowd. Demonstrators jump on the tanks and throw stones and Molotov cocktails. Tiananmen Square is totally surrounded by tanks.
Automatic rifles start shooting, killing people on the square.
The students' loudspeakers claim 50 deaths. All the tanks target the 5,000 students remaining around the Monument to the People's Heroes. Throughout the afternoon more reports come in of civilians shot in all districts. There are also reports of foreigners being injured. The first signs of a struggle emerge between the different army units, with soldiers actually fighting each other.