Hong Kong students arm themselves for showdown as police take breather

Thousands of students hunkered down on several campuses, surrounded by piles of food, bricks, petrol bombs, arrows with heads wrapped in cladding, catapults and other homemade weapons.

Protestors move bricks as they barricade a road near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Thursday, November 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Pro-democracy protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing schools to close and blocking highways as students built barricades and stockpiled makeshift weapons, setting the stage for campus showdowns.