Three armed robbers robbed staff and a visitor at a New Territories monastery of more than $100,000 yesterday.
The men, one armed with a knife and one with a hammer, confronted three staff and a security guard at the Taoist Wan Fou Sin Koon office in Deep Bay Road, Lau Fau Shan, after 6pm.
After threatening the group - three men, aged 22, 42 and 51, and a woman - the bandits tried to tie them up.
The woman, Ms Wu, was forced to hand over the monastery's cash reserves of $97,000 and $2,000 of her own money. The gang also took a watch, several thousand dollars in cash and a mobile phone from the others.
One of the victims, 22, struggled with the men and received minor injuries.
A 35-year-old visitor to the monastery went to the office as the robbery was under way.