Inside the Hong Kong campus at the heart of the protests

Fears of bloodshed as police surround university seized by student activists

Hong Kong protests
A statue stands amid the debris in the canteen at the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong
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A stand-off between security forces and student protesters holed up in Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University appears to be nearing a climax, as police close in on the besieged campus.

After taking control of the university last week, hundreds of protesters have prevented “police from entering the campus” and have been seen “fortifying their holdout with homemade fire bombs, giant sling shots, bricks and bows and arrows”, The New York Times says.

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