Three suspects, including student, 16, arrested over petrol bomb attack at Hong Kong police sports club
- Police say the three suspects in the attack earlier this month were identified after weeks of detective work spent poring over CCTV footage
- A force insider says the three were believed to have been incensed at police measures preventing a monthly gathering at Prince Edward MTR station
Three young men, including a 16-year-old schoolboy, have been arrested on suspicion of hurling nine petrol bombs into a Hong Kong police sports club earlier this month, setting a parked vehicle alight.
The trio, aged 16 to 23, were identified after dozens of officers spent more than two weeks poring over thousands of hours of security camera footage, with police tracking down the suspects and trailing them around the city, a force insider said on Friday.
The source said he believed the firebomb attack had been an ad hoc action allegedly taken by the three suspects because they were unhappy with police measures preventing people from laying flowers outside Prince Edward MTR station on November 30.
Placing flowers and other mementos at the station has been a common practice for those seeking to commemorate a protest on August 31 last year that saw police chase anti-government demonstrators into the station.
On the night of November 30, three others had been fined at the station for violating the city’s mandatory mask-wearing regulations as they joined the monthly event.