Some protesters sought a way out, others vowed not to surrender at the end of the siege at Polytechnic University in Kowloon.
A Hong Kong university campus under siege for more than a week was a deserted wasteland today, with a handful of protesters holed up in hidden refuges across the thrashed grounds, as the city’s focus turned to local elections.
Police have set up high plastic barricades and a fence on the perimeter of the campus, which they have surrounded for more than a week. Early today, a witness saw three police vans drive in as about a dozen officers stood guard. Rotting rubbish and boxes of unused petrol bombs littered the grounds, where many levels of the buildings resemble abandoned hideouts littered with items such as rucksacks, masks and water bottles.through which some students had tried to flee earlier in the week, leaving backpacks, masks and other belongings scattered nearby.
Young pro-democracy activists are now running in some of the seats that were once uncontested and dominated by pro-Beijing candidates.
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