HONG KONG—Pro-democracy protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university were frantically searching for escape routes on Nov. 19 after more than two days of clashes with police and dramatic breakouts by rope and motorcycle.
About 100 protesters were trapped in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) a day after students, some tired and fearful of police storming the campus, tried again and again to flee, only to be beaten back by police firing rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas.
