Security tight at HK university as hundreds of protesters trapped on campus

The bloody standoff between security forces and activists at Polytechnic University entered its second day after a night of mayhem in which a police van was set alight and a police officer was shot with an arrow.

Police arrested dozens of protesters near the university on Monday morning, public broadcaster RTHK reported. Elsewhere in the semi-autonomous territory on Monday riot police arrived in the commercial Nathan Road area where black-clad protesters had roamed the streets before dawn, many carrying petrol bombs.

The city’s Cross Harbour Tunnel linking Hong Kong island to the Kowloon peninsula remained shuttered and protesters torched a footbridge that crosses the highway to the tunnel, authorities said. A protester looks on at a fire below by the barricaded main entrance of Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hung Hom district of Hong Kong on November 18, 2019. - A large fire burned near an entrance to a besieged Hong Kong campus on November 18 morning after protesters threw Molotov cocktails to fend off a police advance on the university, according to AFP reporters at the scene.

An armoured police vehicle that was set ablaze by petrol bombs in Sunday’s violence was towed away early on Monday.

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