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		</div><p>Hong Kong residents endured a fourth day of traffic chaos and mass transport disruption as protesters closed some main roads and rail networks while police skirmished with students at major universities.</p>
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<p>Police said protesters shot several arrows at them near Hong Kong Polytechnic University. None of the officers were injured, and six arrows were seized at the scene, officers said.</p>
<p>Life in this city of 7.5 million has been strained as thousands of commuters have been unable to get to work or endured lengthy commutes.</p>
<p>The government appealed for employers to show flexibility: “For staff who cannot report for duty on time on account of conditions in road traffic or public transport services, employers should give due consideration to the circumstances.”</p>
<p>A business and high-end retail district in the centre of the city was again taken over by protesters at lunchtime, as it has been every day since Monday. Office workers watched from pavements and bridges as protesters littered the streets with bricks and other items to block traffic and police.</p>
<p>At one point, a group of police swooped in and kicked the bricks to the kerb along one major thoroughfare, but the stand-off continued.</p>
<figure id="attachment_144133" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-144133" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-144133" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/48BAE156-3BC8-4A21-94B2-51FCD0426671.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="410" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-144133" class="wp-caption-text">Riot police stand guard</figcaption></figure>
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<p>The Education Bureau extended the suspension of classes for nursery to high school students until Monday. It ordered schools to remain open to handle children whose parents need to work.</p>
<p>At Polytechnic University, protesters shot an arrow at officers patrolling nearby, then threw flower pots from a height when others arrived. Police responded with tear gas, and protesters fired more arrows.</p>
<p>Protesters have hurled petrol bombs and thrown objects off bridges on to roads below during clashes at campuses this week. The Chinese University of Hong Kong suspended classes for the rest of the year, and others asked students to switch to online learning.</p>
<p>Students at the Chinese University, site of some of the fiercest clashes where students hurled more than 400 firebombs at police on Tuesday, have barricaded themselves in the suburban campus.</p>
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<p>Early on Thursday they used chainsaws to drop trees on to streets around the campus and prepared for a possible confrontation with police, who were not intervening.</p>
<p>Anti-government protests have riven Hong Kong and divided its people for more than five months.</p>
<p>A major rail line connecting Kowloon to mainland China was closed for a second day and five major underground stations were shut along with seven light rail routes, the Transport Department announced.</p>
<p>One of the main cross-harbour tunnels connecting Hong Kong Island to Kowloon and the rest of the city was closed after protesters set some of the toll booths on fire on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Traffic was also disrupted because protesters have destroyed at least 240 traffic lights around the city.</p>
<p>The movement began in June over a now-withdrawn extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.</p>
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<p>Activists saw it as another erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms, which China promised would be maintained for 50 years under a “one nation, two systems” principle when the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997.</p>
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