Needles sticking out of Hong Kong bus seats injure two passengers
Police investigate after three finds – and two injuries – in just over 12 hours on KMB double-deckers
Police were investigating on Thursday after three needles were found sticking out of seats on separate buses in Hong Kong, injuring two female passengers in their 20s.
KMB deputy operations director Patrick Pang Shu-hung said the company “treated these incidents seriously and strongly condemned” whoever planted the metal needles on the double-decker buses. The three buses involved all belonged to KMB.
Emphasising that maliciously wounding others was a very serious offence, he said the company had reported the incident to police and would cooperate fully with the investigation.
A police spokesman said the force had received complaints on Wednesday and Thursday from two members of the public and a bus company worker about the needles. The two female passengers aged 28 and 27 who were injured were treated at Kwong Wah and Yan Chai hospitals respectively.
The cases were recorded as request for police investigation and no arrests have been made.
Pang refused to reveal whether the buses’ surveillance cameras captured any suspects. He said there were nine cameras on board each KMB vehicle.