'All hell is breaking loose': Hong Kong police move in on university barricade

Hong Kong police have moved in on protesters who had barricaded themselves at a university campus in centre of the city and were hurling petrol bombs and debris at officers.

According to ABC China correspondent Bill Birtles, who is on the ground near Hong Kong Polytechnic University,"All hell is breaking loose". "The police Raptors — the special tactical forces — I saw them race past the no-man's land through the protest line, and they're firing a tremendous amount of tear gas," he told ABC Radio National."Police earlier in the night said they may resort to live rounds if protesters continued to throw fire bombs at them, and so this is what everybody is really concerned about," Birtles said.

The latest clashes follow an incident where a Hong Kong police officer was admitted to hospital after being

Quote: 'pressing for other formal demands [...], which includes the retraction of the word 'riot' to describe rallies' After rampaging through HK for months, burning buildings, trashing shops, bashing ppl, they want to now be referred to as 'peaceful protestors'. 😂 HKRioters

Mind you, no one really knows who was hiding on the campus because they all wore masks.

🙏 for urgent de-escalation.

JoeABCNews U can hear it in emilylau s narcissistic voice, calm down calm down, but she is basically saying: our way or the highway! u ask her,y now, y not 20 years ago, Beijing bailout hk financial apocalypse using almost half a leg of PRC treasury! bj treat hk as a pearl!sad

The police have trapped the protesters in the uni and have arrested anyone trying to leave including first aides and journalists, and they are telling the protesters to leave the uni or they are going to storm in and possibly use lethal force against them.

This was never going to end well😩

Tiananmen Square Massacre 2.0. They attack university and students!

abcmelbourne Maybe the police are sick of them arrows and fire bombs

do these people really want the Chinese Liberation Army to come in? The way they are behaving, the top cop should just say if you see someone doing damage, shoot them. They have just become a bunch of thugs, who do not give a shit about any ones property including public property

This is not the way. 😑

😢 💔

About time.......should have been done early on when they were throwing petrol bombs. 2 foot batons around the arse should do the trick.

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