A location where protesters rested inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Photo: Felix Wong
Hong Kong protests: bitter stand-off inside Polytechnic University continues with as many as 100 activists still on campus, determined to evade capture
- City’s leader Carrie Lam pleads for peaceful end to impasse and asks police to handle the injured and underage in humane manner
- Final group of volunteer first aid workers leave university late on Tuesday night, while a few protesters make a break for it by climbing fence
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A location where protesters rested inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Photo: Felix Wong
A protester tries to escape through a sewage tunnel inside Polytechnic University. Photo: Reuters
No redemption in sewers as desperate radicals search high and low for way to escape, with Hong Kong police closing in around them
- Small number of protesters remain inside Polytechnic University as routes out of campus prove hard to find
- More than 1,000 have been arrested or have surrendered as sewers fail to provide an answer and other exits are cut off
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A protester tries to escape through a sewage tunnel inside Polytechnic University. Photo: Reuters