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SCMP Reporter

A Hong Kong police officer's MP5 submachine gun has accidentally gone off in the second such case in less than a year.
No one was injured, but the latest incident will raise questions about the safety of police officers' handling of loaded weapons.
The live round was discharged from the male officer's gun at around 4pm on Monday in a loading area inside the New Territories South regional police headquarters on Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan. The district crime squad is investigating.
The incident comes months after a Hong Kong policewoman’s Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun went off while she was unloading it at Mong Kok police station.
The bullet hit the wall and damaged a wooden partition in the July incident. Again no one was hurt.
An ensuing police investigation focused on whether the gun had been mishandled, as it is rare for an MP5 to discharge accidentally.
Elsewhere in China, a policeman in Henan province accidentally fired a shot from his pistol while he was giving a safety demonstration at a kindergarten in May last year.
One child and four parents were injured after the bullet shattered the cement floor and caused fragments to hit the audience.
The policeman, who was at the kindergarten ahead of Children’s Day, said he thought the gun was unloaded. He said he took the gun out and tested it to satisfy “the curiosity of the children”.


Hong Kong policeman's submachine gun goes off in second 'accidental discharge' in seven months

A police MP5 submachine gun (the same make as in the inset photo) accidentally discharged a live round inside the police regional headquarters in Tsuen Wan. Photos: Bloomberg, Heckler & Koch

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A Hong Kong police MP5 submachine gun accidentally discharged a shot while an officer was loading his weapon – the second such incident in seven months.
