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Protesters set fire to hold off police at Hong Kong campus

Police tried to retake a footbridge over a tunnel in Hong Kong but were met by a barrage of petrol bombs that caused a huge fire. [AFP]

Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in, after officers warned they may use live rounds if confronted by deadly weapons.

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