Police probe acid attack
By Min Lee |
March 9, 2010, Tuesday
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A BOTTLE filled with acid was dropped onto a street in Hong Kong on Sunday, the third such incident in the same area in six months, police said yesterday.
Police arrested one person in connection with an attack in December but, for the most part, the cases have mystified authorities and are among a spate of such incidents over the past two years.
In the latest attack, the beer bottle containing an acidic substance broke after being dropped onto an awning at street level in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district, with the liquid splashing on the face of a male passer-by, police said.
"There was a bang, and people looked up and saw lots of smoke. And someone called the police. The bang was loud. The pedestrians ran away immediately," a shopkeeper told the South China Morning Post.
While none of acid attacks in Sham Shui Po had caused major injuries, similar incidents in other districts have injured dozens of pedestrians since December 2008.
Police arrested one person in connection with an attack in December but, for the most part, the cases have mystified authorities and are among a spate of such incidents over the past two years.
In the latest attack, the beer bottle containing an acidic substance broke after being dropped onto an awning at street level in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district, with the liquid splashing on the face of a male passer-by, police said.
"There was a bang, and people looked up and saw lots of smoke. And someone called the police. The bang was loud. The pedestrians ran away immediately," a shopkeeper told the South China Morning Post.
While none of acid attacks in Sham Shui Po had caused major injuries, similar incidents in other districts have injured dozens of pedestrians since December 2008.
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