A 57-year-old man surnamed Lee in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, was thrown with flammable liquid and ignited by a mob on the 11th, causing serious burns. Hong Kong's "East Net" reported on the evening of the 18th that after a week of investigation, the police arrested a woman surnamed Chen and a man surnamed Kwong on suspicion of illegal assembly in the airport police district and the Wan Chai police district on the 18th, and the two are now being detained for investigation.
Screenshot of the Hong Kong "East Net" report
According to a previous report by The East Net, on November 11, a man was thrown flammable liquids and set on fire by mobs on a flyover in the direction of the library in Haibai Garden, Ma'anshan. According to the report, before the incident, a mob entered the MTR Ma On Shan Station to wreak havoc, and the burned man was suspected of being dissatisfied with the destruction of the station and pulled with the people in black present, and then chased to the scene of the incident and had a verbal altercation with the people present.
According to reports, the injured man was later taken to the hospital, and was diagnosed with 40% of the skin of the body with secondary burns, and his condition was critical at one point.
Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, mentioned the matter when meeting reporters on the evening of the 11th, and she described it as "outrageous". Carrie Lam lamented that the mob's behavior far exceeded the demands (itself) and were making enemies of the citizens. Carrie Lam's violent and destructive acts against the rioters solemnly stated, "Your actions will not succeed, and your evil deeds of indiscriminately hurting some innocent citizens will certainly not win the so-called demands you have spoken of." She said that violence will not solve the problem, violence will produce more violence, make society more hurt, but also bring tragedies to society, no one wants to see these tragedies happen. She called for the first priority, regardless of political views, to stop the violence and restore calm.
Carrie Lam met with reporters on the 11th. Cheng Zhong/Photo
The Hong Kong SAR government issued a press release at 00:44 on the 12th, saying that the police were investigating the attempted murder case, in which the 57-year-old man was seriously injured. Hong Kong police said that at about 12:55 p.m. they received a report from a passer-by that the 57-year-old man had argued with others on a pedestrian bridge on An Chun Street, and that a person involved in the case had thrown suspected flammable liquid on the man and set it on fire before fleeing. Police rushed to the scene and found multiple burns on the man's body. Police said at the time that the injured man was currently in critical condition at the Prince of Wales Hospital. The Commercial Crime Bureau is actively investigating the case.
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