Hong Kong Police Raid Polytechnic University After All-Night Siege

Daily Mail: Hong Kong in flames: Students set fire to entrance of university after hundreds flee inside as police storm campus following all-night stand-off

* A police officer in Honk Kong was struck in the leg with an arrow fired by a protester at a university campus
* Police stormed the Hong Kong Polytechnic University after an all-night siege and clashes with protesters
* As riot police moved in from all sides, hundreds of defiant protesters retreated to inside of the university
* Fires broke out and a huge blaze burned along much of a footbridge that connects train station to the campus

Hong Kong police have stormed a university campus held by protesters following an all-night stand-off.

Hundreds of defiant protesters inside Hong Kong's Polytechnic University had faced off against a police water cannon and armoured vehicles in raging battles that lasted an entire day and through the night.

Riot officers finally entered before dawn on Monday and fiery explosions could be seen inside as protesters retreated.

As riot police moved in from all sides, some protesters retreated inside the university while others set fires on bridges leading to it.

A staircase leading to the university was set ablaze as hundreds fled inside the campus as police stormed in.

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