Hopes of a possible ceasefire at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - the last of three campuses that remained in an intense stand-off with police - shattered as fresh clashes raged into the night, with hundreds defying repeated government warnings to stay away from the area.
Last night, medical personnel were allowed in to tend to the wounded, while university officials called for more negotiations, and parents made emotional pleas to the authorities to let children caught up in the PolyU police siege leave unharmed. Chief Executive Carrie Lam, in a Facebook post yesterday evening, said:"Police have many times made appeals. Those inside the campus should listen to police without delay."Dozens inside the campus managed to escape last night by abseiling down to a highway from a campus footbridge. They were picked up by vehicles.
Amid the confrontations which lasted an unprecedented 48 hours from Sunday, explosions were heard, fires sent thick smoke into the sky and tear gas mists clouded the university campus. Universities became the new battlegrounds in Hong Kong's anti-government movement following the Nov 8 death of computer science undergraduate Alex Chow Tsz Lok. The 22-year-old was the first student death directly linked to the protests that have gripped the city the past six months.
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