Summary
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters staged a dramatic escape from a university campus sealed off by police Monday by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fired projectiles. Many more protesters remained trapped inside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and two prominent figures were allowed by police onto the campus late Monday to mediate, a sign that there is a growing risk of bloodshed.
Some of the protesters who escaped Monday did so by lowering themselves about 10 meters from a bridge they had occupied on the campus to a flyover below.
Dozens, choking on the tear gas, tried to leave the campus by breaking through police lines, but were pushed back.
Witnesses estimated there were more than 300 people still on the campus. Police say 4,491 people, aged from 11 to 83, have been arrested since protests began in June.
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