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Black shadows in Hong Kong's devastated campus as police continue siege
Black shadows flitting around in small groups deserted rubbish-strewn corridors and cockroaches in disemboweled kitchens: dawn broke on Friday to reveal a post-apocalyptic scene at a Hong Kong campus six days after a police siege began.
In a near-empty, soundless labyrinth, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is decoupled from the cacophony of a brash, bustling city of 7.5 million people.
The pro-democracy protesters holding this brick "fortress" are almost invisible as they hide among the maze of rooms and corridors.
They occasionally emerge, clustered in twos or threes and give interviews to the assembled media.