Police deny rumour they raided campus and say ‘dispersal and arrest operation’ was ongoing
An intense stand-off between protesters and police officers continued to boil over at a Hong Kong university on Monday morning with demonstrators vowing to stage more traffic disruptions elsewhere in the city.
Tensions flared when riot police pushed forward at the Polytechnic University (PolyU) campus in Hung Hom at around 5.30am.
Protesters were seen setting fire to the school’s main entrance on Cheong Wan Road and hurling petrol bombs from above officers, who fired multiple rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets from the rooftop of the adjacent Hong Kong Museum of History.
A man was seen being removed from the university campus by a first aider on a stretcher.
At about 7am, protesters occupying the podium at the university’s main entrance stopped firefighters from putting out the blaze, while throwing objects into it to keep it burning.
One protester was heard telling his peers that riot police would rush in once the fire was extinguished.
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