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According to the "East Net" and other Hong Kong media sources, suspected explosives were found in the afternoon of this afternoon (7th), and after the police received the report, they sealed the telephone booth involved, and notified the explosive ordnance disposal department personnel to be present to deal with it, and the anti-terrorism special service team personnel also arrived at the scene. The police eventually dispatched bomb disposal robots to detonate suspicious items.
Suspected explosives were found at a telephone booth in Kwai Chung and police officers were present to deal with them (Image source: "East Net")
According to the report, at 3:49 p.m. on the 7th, when a 62-year-old male neighbor passed through a telephone booth at the junction of Brick Ping Street and Heyi Road, he found two rectangular tin foil packages on the shelves of the pavilion, related items about the size of 2 palms, one of which was gold on the surface, the other was silver, and there was a circuit board and a digital display that was not turned on.
Suspicious items found inside the phone booth (Image source: "East Net")
After receiving the report, the police sealed the telephone booth involved and blocked the relevant road section nearby, while urgently evacuating about 100 citizens, including merchants at the scene. During the period, firefighters were on guard nearby, the anti-terrorism special service team was also present, and Xie Zhenzhong, commander of the Kwai Ching Police District, grasped the progress of the situation at the scene.
Bomb disposal robot detonates (Image source: "East Net")
At about 5 p.m., the personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit (EOD) arrived at the site in a bomb disposal vehicle and, in response to the environmental conditions, decided to dispatch a bomb disposal robot to properly resolve the possible crisis. About half an hour later, the bomb disposal robot successfully detonated the suspicious object, and the bomb expert wearing a full protective suit examined it again, believing that there was no potential danger and handed it over to the police officers present for follow-up. The police will take away the remnants of the detonation and will arrange for further testing to ascertain the true nature of the items concerned.
"Sing Tao Network" said that it is understood that the suspicious item contains powder. The bomb disposal robot successfully detonated the suspicious item, emitting white smoke, and no one was injured in the incident. After the threat of suspicious items was lifted, a large number of police officers searched for evidence near the telephone booth to investigate, and the source of the suspicious items remained to be investigated.