HONG KONG, Nov 26 — Officials at a Hong Kong university where police and protesters clashed violently a week ago said today they had searched the entire campus and found just one remaining holdout in a sign the campus siege may be near an end. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) emerged as...
The standoff at PolyU quickly settled into a tense stalemate.— Reuters pic
The standoff then quickly settled into a tense stalemate during which hundreds fled the campus—some attempting to get out through sewer lines—leaving a dwindling core of holdouts.“We have swept through the whole campus systematically and we found one protester in the student union building,” the university’s vice president Wai Ping-kong told reporters.
The university sent in teams earlier today to look for holdouts, sealing doors with tape after rooms had been searched, but Wai said officials could not rule out the possibility that other protesters remained hidden.
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