DHAKA: Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy campaign announced on its Twitter page Sunday evening that it was leaving one of the main protest sites, the shopping belt of Mong Kok, for another site, the government and business district of Admiralty. 

Protestors also decided to withdraw from the area around Chief Executive Leung Chun Ying’s office ‘to clear traffic’, South China Morning Post and Radio Television Hong Kong said, reports The Straits Times.

Protestors were to maintain their blockade around the government headquarters, including the footbridge over Harcourt Road, the Post added.

Student protestors camped outside Leung’s office for the past four days were seen clearing out from the site minutes after the Twitter announcement. Some of them even helped police stationed outside the office to prevent students from entering the compound to remove barricades, Ming Pao Daily News reported.

One was photographed by the daily shaking hands with a police officer.

The move came on the heels of clashes between supporters and opponents of the movement on Saturday and Friday.

BDST: 1719 HRS, OCT 05, 2014