Police shoot men in knife attack
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THREE people are being treated in hospital after police in Hong Kong fired shots to stop a knife attack.
The wounded were two assailants and a man being attacked, police said, adding that all were of “South Asian” origin.
“Five to six ... men, with some carrying knives, were attacking another man,” police officer Ma Wai-hing told reporters at the scene of the incident in the city’s commercial district of Yau Ma Tei. “After verbal warnings were ignored, four shots were fired. Two men were shot,” he said. The pair were arrested and taken to hospital.
They, along with the knife attack victim, are in a stable condition, Ma said.
Footage uploaded online showed a uniformed officer pointing a gun at a group of men — some of whom were wielding knives over a man on the ground — before shots were fired.
The officer can be heard yelling “put down your weapon” in Cantonese.
Police said four shots were fired as the first shot was “ineffective” in stopping the attack.
A reporter at the scene said a road intersection was cordoned off around noon as detectives gathered evidence. Two knives could be seen on the ground.
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