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HONG KONG: Handful of Hong Kong protesters surrender as university siege

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- At least eight protesters who had been holding out at a trashed Hong Kong

university surrendered to police in the early hours of Friday, while others

desperately searched for escape routes as riot officers surrounded the campus.

The siege at the Polytechnic University on the Kowloon peninsula appeared to be

nearing an end with the number of protesters dwindling to less than 100, days

after some of the worst violence since anti-government demonstrations escalated

in June. The mood on the near-deserted campus was calm as the sun rose after a

night where some protesters roamed the grounds in search of undercover officers.

Others hid, terrified they would be arrested by infiltrators. "We are feeling a

little tired. All of us feel tired but we will not give up trying to get out,"

said a 23-year-old demonstrator who gave his name only as Shiba as he ate

noodles with egg and sausage in the protesters' canteen. "We spent yesterday

trying to find ways to get outside but failed, so we came for some breakfast,"

he said.