Some exchange students urged to leave Hong Kong

14/11/2019 2:37

        Several Nordic students at Hong Kong Baptist University are being moved because anti-government demonstrators are on the school grounds. Student Elina Neverdal Hjoennevaag told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that they are being sent to a hotel, adding, “I don’t really know what is happening. I must pack.” She said she and several other exchange students were told to pack and move away from the university. She said, “people walked out with their suitcases, Many cried.” The Norwegian Foreign Ministry says on its website that "students should continuously evaluate campus safety if teaching is interrupted due to protests." The Technical University of Denmark urged its 36 students in Hong Kong to pack up and return home. Police on Tuesday raided the Chinese University of Hong Kong, setting off violent clashes. The university remained barricaded by demonstrators on Wednesday as the city’s 5-month-long anti-government unrest turns increasingly violent.