One of the 17 ethnic Chinese victims of the Pillar Point riot described yesterday how an attacker cut a baby with a knife.
'The father was carrying the baby in his arms at the time. He was running away. An attacker ran up and tried to stab him [but got the baby],' Fu Ah-sei, 33, said from his Tuen Mun Hospital bed.
'I saw someone I knew being chopped as I ran away. He was badly wounded, his entire body was covered in blood.
'I was pushed downstairs by an attacker while trying to escape . . . my ankle was badly injured. I was able to run [to safety], but once I sat down outside, I couldn't get up again . . . I'm in agony now.
'[My arm and finger] were struck by some flying debris. I bled a lot. I couldn't see what hit me, there was so much smoke, it stung my eyes.
'I was standing at my door [in block 30] when it began. There was a lot of smoke from the petrol bombs. People were screaming and shouting.
'I saw dozens of Vietnamese charging towards us with knives. How could we resist? No one was prepared for it. We could only run away.' Mr Fu, a building site worker who is married with a five-year-old daughter, said women and children escaped separately.