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Hong Kong protestors have fired arrows and hurled petrol bombs at police, as they seek to keep control of a barricaded university.

Warning they were authorised to use "lethal force", officers threatened to use live bullets if rioters

continued. The territory continues to suffer some of its worst unrest in six months of demonstrations. Image: Getty

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