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Two suspected triad members have been arrested over an attack on the woman director and the male news controller of a planned new local newspaper.
A 30-year-old garage worker was picked up after a silver Toyota used in the attack was found abandoned in Wong Tai Sin yesterday, police said. The Hong Kong resident owns the car, which had not been reported stolen, a police source revealed.
One of his friends was arrested when he presented himself to police with his lawyer. It is understood he had borrowed the car for about a month.
Both men, believed to be Wo Shing Wo triad members, are being held for questioning but have not been charged.
It was the city's second attack on media figures in three weeks. Former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau Chun-to was critically injured in a chopping incident in Sai Wan Ho on February 26.
Asked if the attacks are a challenge to law and order, Police Commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung said the police were "fully aware of the public concern about attacks on individuals connected to journalism".
"As with all violent crimes, we will deal with them seriously and are making sure that the investigation is as thorough as possible," Tsang said.