Acid Thrown on Crowd In Hong Kong Shopping District
June 9, 2009 by national
Filed under World Report
A bottle of acid thrown into a crowd in one of Hong Kong’s popular shopping districts injured 24 pedestrians, police said Tuesday, the third in a series of attacks that have injured nearly 100 people.
None of the victims were seriously burned when a bottle filled with a corrosive liquid was thrown at pedestrians in the busy Mong Kok district on Monday night.
Police were investigating all three incidents and have posted a $116,097 reward for information leading to an arrest.
On the same street last month, 30 people suffered burns when two plastic bottles filled with acid were thrown down into a crowd. Another 46 were injured in a similar attack around the area in December.
Police superintendent Edward Leung told the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s English-language newspaper, that it was possible the same person had carried out all three attacks.
