Customers dived for cover as two robbers opened fire during a $70,000 bank robbery in Tuen Mun yesterday.
The raiders escaped in a car bearing a false number plate registered to a senior policeman.
The pair fired one shot in the Dao Heng Bank and another four shots in the direction of two beat policemen as they fled on foot with $70,300.
Witnesses described the raid as terrifying, with the policemen and about 10 pedestrians diving for cover as bullets flew.
The robbers, wearing surgical masks, entered the bank on the first floor of Siu Hong Court shopping centre about 11.30am.
'One of them guarding the exit of the bank fired a shot towards the ceiling and his accomplice jumped over the counter and snatched about $100,000 from drawers,' Senior Superintendent Albert Kwok Cho-kuen said.
There were more than 20 staff and customers in the bank at the time, he said.