Hong Kong police found 14kg of dangerous substances and an improvised bomb at an abandoned school in eastern Kowloon on Saturday, with a senior officer saying some of the chemicals appeared to be from the campus of Polytechnic University occupied by protesters last year.
The disused site on Choi Shek Road in Ngau Tau Kok had been used by officers in the past to carry out exercises, but none of those drills involved such materials, the police said.
The discovery is the 11th bomb case the force has handled since anti-government demonstrations broke out last summer and comes after a 60 per cent jump in the number of cases involving explosives in 2019 over the previous year.
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Source: South China Morning Post