When armed robbers sprayed a Hong Kong mahjong parlour with bullets, killing 2 men and injuring 19 other people
- Bullets and grenades flew during an armed robbery at a crowded mahjong parlour in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, in 1992
- The gang fled with more than HK$2 million in cash and jewellery. Three men were later arrested in China, but the leader, a Hongkonger, eluded capture
“Two men were shot dead during an armed robbery on a Mong Kok mahjong parlour last night by a gang armed with a submachine gun, handguns and at least seven grenades,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 6, 1992.
“Nineteen people, most of them customers at the Shui Hing Mahjong School in Portland Street, were injured when the gang of six or seven masked men sprayed bullets around the room when some of them resisted being robbed.
“There was [sic] more than 100 people playing at more than 30 tables on both floors of the school when the raid took place just before 10pm.
“While fleeing from the scene with an estimated $2 million in cash and jewellery, the gang continued to fire an unknown number of shots and exploded two grenades.”
On June 19, the Post reported that “three men, believed to be connected with a fatal shoot-out at a mahjong school in Mong Kok last month, have been arrested in Guangdong. The three were identified as Tong Yu-cheung, Sham Wai-hung and Lee Kam-fai.