by Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Protesters attempt sewer escapes
Some of the last protesters remaining at a besieged university in Hong Kong have tried to escape and evade police by crawling through sewers.
Hundreds of protesters have already left PolyU but dozens remain inside.
The campus - the scene of some of the most intense clashes witnessed during months of anti-government protests - is surrounded by police who are arresting for rioting any adults trying to leave.
Six people were arrested on Wednesday for an attempted escape via the sewers.
The group included two men climbing out of an underground drain and four people - three men and a woman - who had removed a manhole cover and lowered a rope into the drain to assist them, police said.
"It was complicated and dark down there, I wanted to get home as soon as possible," one young man who unsuccessfully attempted a sewer escape told BBC Chinese. "But how else could we leave the PolyU campus?"
(continued, seems the Dungeons & Dragons experience isn't wasted after all?
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