Raid on family nets military-style guns
A 27-year-old man was being questioned by police last night after two military-style pistols and 12 rounds of ammunition were found in his Sha Tin house.
Officers said the bullets were capable of piercing flak jackets, although they could not penetrate those used in the force. The pistols are now being examined to determine if they were used in recent armed robberies.
The jobless man and seven members of his family, including his wife, father and parents-in-law, were arrested when 85 officers, most of them wearing bullet-proof vests, raided the two-storey house in Ah Kung Kok Fishermen's Village, Siu Lek Yuen, at about 4am.
'A Russian-made 9mm-calibre pistol loaded with five rounds of ammunition and a Chinese-made 7.62mm-calibre pistol with another seven bullets were found inside one of the bedrooms,' said Senior Superintendent David Ip Wai-keung, of the New Territories South regional crime unit.
After a week-long investigation based on a tip-off, officers from the force's Key Point and Search Unit and New Territories South regional crime and emergency unit raided the suspect's house and several other houses in the village with sniffer dogs.
The eight - six men and two women aged between 25 and 62 - were arrested in connection with possession of firearms and ammunition. They were being questioned last night at Ma On Shan police station.
