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Hong Kong Protesters, Police Trade Petrol Bombs, Tear Gas

Reuters

   HONG KONG - Fresh violence erupted around a besieged Hong Kong
   university campus Sunday morning, as protesters braced for a possible
   final police push to clear them after fiery clashes overnight.

   Huge fires had lit up the night sky at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
   in Kowloon district hours earlier as protesters hurled petrol bombs,
   some by catapult, and police fired volleys of tear gas to force them up
   onto the podium of the red-brick campus.

   After a few quiet hours as protesters slept on lawns and in the
   university library, police fired fresh rounds of tear gas shortly after
   10 a.m. Activists hurled petrol bombs in return, some igniting trees
   outside the campus.

   Hours earlier, squads of Chinese soldiers dressed in shorts and
   T-shirts, some carrying red plastic buckets or brooms, emerged from
   their barracks in a rare public appearance to help residents clear
   debris blocking key roads.

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