HK protesters start exploring sewers to escape sieged campus

About 100 anti-government protesters remained holed up at a Hong Kong university during the third day of a police siege of the campus.

Protesters have removed metal manholes, some making exploratory forays into the fetid tunnels, following rumours of successful exfiltrations from a campus ringed for three days by baton-wielding police determined to arrest them. One protester, gas mask on, and cling film wrapped around his arms, carried a torch as he descended with his backpack down the metal rungs into the subterranean gloom.

Police said 37 of the escapees and bike drivers were later arrested — but many others are thought to have got away.Earlier Monday scores of protesters faced a gauntlet of batons from Hong Kong’s bruising riot cops as they made a dash along another bridge. Under-18s have also been escorted out by teachers — their details taken but not immediately arrested on exit from the campus — while Monday was pock-marked by sporadic failed escape bids by clusters of protesters.“Liberty or Death” has been sprayed on the glass entrance to one building, where a 7-Eleven store has been looted and a Bank of China ATM has been smashed up.

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