Hong Kong police arrest protesters attempting to leave

A protester lowers himself down a rope from a bridge to a highway to escape from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus and from the police. Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped the police siege at the campus by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city. Police said the demonstrators inside Polytechnic University had no option but to come out and surrender.

An anti-government protester uses a bow during clashes with police at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong police fought running battles with protesters trying to break a security cordon around the university in the city, firing teargas both at activists trying to escape the besieged campus and at crowds trying to reach it from outside.

Police detain protesters and students after they tried to flee the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. The university siege stretched into a sixth day on Friday as medics warned of a humanitarian crisis and the city prepared for weekend elections that will be a key barometer of public support for protesters.