AN ATTACK by Tung Tau residents on a Down's syndrome association centre was last night condemned by social workers as ''barbaric''.
The residents vandalised the building on their estate, smashing windows and daubing a door with messages threatening to kill the centre's head.
The vandalism was the latest in a series of demonstrations by residents in Tung Tau against facilities for mentally handicapped people being opened by the Government on the Kowloon estate.
Banners and bills opposing the proposed opening in December of the Down's syndrome facility and parent resource centre were also plastered over a nearby garden area yesterday.
Their messages called for the closure of such centres and threatened to ''eradicate the mentally handicapped''.
Social workers were last night appalled by the residents' ''barbaric behaviour''.