Manhunt under way as Best Mart 360 becomes latest target in string of Hong Kong firebombings
- Police are searching for two black clad suspects after five petrol bombs were hurled into the snack shop at about 2.30am on Thursday
- Only a day earlier, the force revealed that police facilities had been hit 17 times since January after a message encouraging the attacks was posted to Telegram
A citywide manhunt is under way for two black-clad suspects after five petrol bombs were hurled into a store in a New Territories shopping centre in the early hours of Thursday – the latest in a string of firebomb attacks in Hong Kong.
Emergency personnel were called to the Best Mart 360 outlet on the ground floor of the Shan King Shopping Centre in Tuen Mun shortly when the attack occurred shortly after 2.30am.
“Surveillance camera footage showed two black-clad culprits used hard objects to break the shop’s display window, then lobbed five petrol bombs into the store,” a police source said.
The two attackers fled before police arrived. Firefighters doused the flames, though some goods were damaged and part of the ceiling was blackened.
Police scouted the area, but no arrests were made. Two unexploded petrol bombs and glass fragments were seized at the scene and taken for examination.
No one was injured in the incident and evacuation was not necessary, according to police.