A Hong Kong university campus under siege for over a week has become almost deserted, with only a handful of protesters now holed up in hidden refuges across the grounds, as the city's focus turned toward local elections
The siege neared its end as some protesters at Polytechnic University on the Kowloon peninsula desperately sought a way out and others vowed not to surrender, days after some of the worst violence since anti-government demonstrations escalated in June.Another protester, Ron, vowed to remain until the end with other holdouts, adding: "The message will be clear that we will never surrender.
Scores of construction workers worked at the mouth of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, closed for more than a week after it was first blockaded, to repair toll booths smashed by protesters and clear debris from approach roads.The repairs got underway as a record 1,104 people gear up to run for 452 district council seats in elections tomorrow.
The protests snowballed from June after years of resentment over what many residents see as Chinese meddling in freedoms promised to Hong Kong when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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