Police officers fire 5 shots at charging assailant carrying serrated knife, metal rod

Three Hong Kong police officers fired five shots at a man, suspected to be mentally ill, who charged at them with a serrated knife and a metal rod in the early hours of Saturday morning. Senior Superintendent Iu Wing-kan said that police received reports after midnight that a man was carrying weapons and behaving abnormally at Tsuen Wan MTR station and Cheung Wing Road in Kwai Chung. Officers were dispatched to the area, but found no sign of the suspect. The force was alerted by several drive...

By Fiona Sun