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Hong Kong protests: Carrie Lam calls for peaceful end to university demonstration

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Hong Kong protests: Carrie Lam calls for peaceful end to university demonstration

Protesters wait to receive medical attention at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus during protests Hong Kong leader. Carrie Lam has she hoped a standoff between police and protesters at a university could be resolved peacefully.

A group of about 100 defiant demonstrators remained in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which has been surrounded by police, after more than two days of clashes.

More than 200 people have been injured.

Lam spoke at a news conference shortly after the city’s new police chief urged the support of all citizens to end five months of unrest in the region. Protesters run past burning debris as they flee from police near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (AP) She said her government was very much on the “reactive side” but did not rule out further violence even as she urged peace. “If the protesters are coming out in a peaceful manner … then there is no situation when that sort of violence would happen.”

However, police would have to take “necessary action” if the situation changed, she said. Lam also said she had been shocked that campuses had been turned into “weapons factories”. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference on Tuesday […]

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