30 injured in new Hong Kong acid attack: police

[Monseratto]

Kunti ingat lang sa mga may balak pumunta sa HK. Previous acid attack victims were Pinoy families...

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 00:55:00 01/10/2010

HONG KONG--Thirty people were injured by corrosive liquid hurled in one of Hong Kong's favorite tourist spots on Saturday, police said, the sixth such attack reported in just over a year.

Among the injured were several foreign tourists, according to broadcaster RTHK.

Police received reports at around 9:30 pm (1330 GMT) that a bottle of corrosive liquid had been thrown in the Temple Street night market in Yau Ma Tei district, a lively shopping area that hosts hawkers, fortune-tellers and nightclubs, a spokesman said.

The 19 men and 11 women injured had been sent to hospital, the spokesman said.

A large team of police and firemen had been dispatched to the scene but no arrests had been made, he said.

There have been five previous acid attacks in Hong Kong since late 2008. Three took place in densely populated Mong Kok, another shopping quarter neighboring Yau Ma Tei.

Last month six people were injured when a bottle of acid was hurled down a street in Causeway Bay, another shopping hub which was packed with people celebrating the Hong Kong football team's victory over Japan in the East Asian Games final.

Despite repeated appeals to the public for information about the culprit, or culprits, no one has been charged. The police said it was unclear whether the cases were connected.

[morrissey_05]

shet. pupunta kami this month.

[CVT]

Walandyo,- dapat mahuli na iyan at ikalaboso..... No more HK for now....

9101:thatsit:

[Gen. Miting]

tsk tsk meron pa din neto. when i was there last year, i caught the news about an acid attack in TST area

[malinkelly]

men! what a messed up?!!

[queereye]

i think the police was able to catch a suspect of the acid attack after than january incident.. what we dont know is that whether he is the only one who does the crime or there is someone else doing it..