More Hong Kong protesters leave Polytechnic University in surrender, dozens still barricaded inside besieged campus
- About seven exit the grounds seeking medical help as five-day siege continues
- City’s transport network returns to relative normality on Thursday after days of chaos
Another group of diehard protesters has left the besieged Polytechnic University campus and surrendered to police, as Hong Kong’s transport system returned to relative normality on Thursday morning.
Police continued to seal off the Hung Hom site as the stand-off entered its fifth day, with about 60 radicals still barricaded inside and resisting pleas to hand themselves in.
In the small hours of Thursday, about seven who had been holed up for days in increasingly squalid conditions sought medical treatment and left the grounds with paramedics, where they were met by police.
A Post reporter on site found at least 20 laboratories had been broken into, some of them containing potentially explosive materials.
In signs that radicals had ventured inside, windows were broken on multiple floors of the science building, close to the footbridge from which protesters abseiled down on Monday night in their bid to escape the PolyU siege.