PolyU becomes a ghost town but protesters remain

PolyU becomes a ghost town but protesters remain

The Polytechnic University has become much of a ghost town, after it was besieged by police following a day-long battle on Sunday.



Several dozen people are still believed to be scattered around the campus, but they're hardly seen in the public areas.



The chairman of the Hong Kong Association of the Heads of Secondary Schools, Teddy Tang, once again went into the campus on Saturday morning hoping to convince the few remaining underaged protesters to leave the university.



But he said he was unable to see any, and only came across around a dozen grown-up protesters, who once again stressed they had no plan to leave the campus.



He described them as being very reclusive, and said he is concerned about their psychological condition after being surrounded by police for so many days.



Tang said the hygiene condition is getting very bad inside the school, with dirty clothes and decaying food scraps lying all over the place, adding that petrol bombs and flammable liquids are sitting in the open air, unattended.



Earlier, the police had said they’ve not set a deadline for the few remaining protesters to leave the campus, saying it is hoped they will drop their weapons and make their way out peacefully.