Toy gun at Happy Valley flat sparks response from heavily armed Hong Kong police officers
A security guard’s call leads to a 90-minute manhunt that ended with discovery of teenage boy playing with toy
A teenage boy carrying a toy gun sparked a 90-minute manhunt by heavily-armed police in Happy Valley on Monday afternoon.
The manhunt began when a security guard, 68, notified police that he had seen a man carrying what appeared to be a handgun and entering a residential block on Blue Pool Road. The guard called police shortly before 2.30pm on Monday.
A team of emergency unit officers wearing bulletproof vests and helmets and armed with submachine guns were seen outside the building. A section of the road was closed to traffic.
Police guarded the building’s exits, and people leaving the building had to be checked by officers.
The search ended at about 4pm when officers found a boy with a toy gun in one of the flats. Police said no one was arrested.