Hong Kong Police explosive experts retrieve bomb fragments from the food plaza of the Jusco store in Tuen Mun in 1999. Following the blast, a hoax caller threatened more bombings at its branches. Photo: Oliver Tsang
When a ‘bored’ security guard made hoax bomb threats against a Hong Kong department store ‘just for fun’
- After a bomb blast in a Jusco store in Hong Kong in 1999, and a warning of a second device, a man was charged with demanding HK$4 million from the store
- Wong Chi-wai, a 44-year-old hotel security guard, said he did it for fun and wanted to play a joke on the police. The father of two was jailed for 18 months
Hong Kong Police explosive experts retrieve bomb fragments from the food plaza of the Jusco store in Tuen Mun in 1999. Following the blast, a hoax caller threatened more bombings at its branches. Photo: Oliver Tsang
