Tear gas above ground, snakes below: Hong Kong protesters take to sewers to flee


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Nov 2019

FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters look inside a sewer as they look for an escape route in an underground carpark at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China, November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

HONG KONG (Reuters) - With all other escape routes blocked, some of the remaining protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university tried the unthinkable: they crawled through the sewers to get out.

How many took to the underground network of tunnels to flee and whether any actually got away is unclear.

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