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A police bomb disposal team safely dealt with a suspected grenade found in Happy Valley on Wednesday. Officers said they were called at around 1.40pm over the discovery on a slope along Stubbs Road. The device, which was said to Read More …
A suspected wartime bomb was found in a construction site at the airport on Saturday. Police said they were alerted to the discovery around noon. The force’s bomb-disposal officers arrived at the scene soon afterwards. They detonated the suspected device Read More …
The Inter-departmental Counter Terrorism Unit (ICTU) coordinated a large-scale inter-departmental counter-terrorism (CT) exercise codenamed “WISDOMLIGHT” at the Youth Sports Ground in the Kai Tak Sports Park (KTSP) today (December 17). In addition to the six member departments of ICTU — Read More …
The mastermind behind a foiled bomb plot during anti-government protests in Hong Kong in 2019 has been jailed for nearly 24 years in the city’s first case brought under an anti-terrorism law. Ng Chi-hung, who had previously pleaded guilty to Read More …
A foiled plan to kill Hong Kong police with explosives during the 2019 social unrest was all but disclosed by suspected bombers in messages sent three weeks before the planned attack, the prosecution has told the High Court. Prosecutor says Read More …
A man who was among 12 crime suspects caught during an attempt to travel to Taiwan by speedboat in 2020 was jailed for three years and 10 months by the District Court on Tuesday. Tang Kai-yin, 34, had earlier admitted Read More …
A Hongkonger who made a failed escape attempt to Taiwan has been jailed for five years and one month over perverting the course of justice and two explosive charges linked to the protests in 2019. Quinn Moon, 37, appeared at Read More …
A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge under a Beijing-imposed national security law over his involvement in a foiled plot to bomb court buildings. Prosecutors said Ho Yu-wang, 19, Read More …
The two men, 33-year-old Ho Chi-hin and 34-year-old Ng Tsz-kit, appeared at the Eastern Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after they were arrested on Sunday near Nam Fung Road in Aberdeen. Authorities seized some 30 kg of various types of chemicals, Read More …
Police said they will dispose of a naval mine from World War II in the eastern waters of Hong Kong Island on Friday. Officers said they found the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D’Aguilar near Shek O after receiving a Read More …
A 30-year-old engineer was found guilty of inciting subversion, amongst other charges, on Wednesday (September 3) by using a telegram channel to teach netizens how to build explosives and assault the police during the 2019 protests. In the District Court Read More …
Three people were arrested for inciting others to attack police officers and government buildings, as police seized bomb materials including TATP from their residence. Police said on Tuesday that some criminals incited others to attack police officers and several government Read More …
Officers from the police’s bomb squad rushed to Ta Chuen Ping Street in Kwai Chung and detonated a suspected bomb placed in a phone booth there. The device was detonated around 5.30pm today. A bang and white fumes emanated from Read More …
Hong Kong police have arrested nine people including six high school children over an alleged terrorist plot. Members of the group are aged between 15 and 39 years old. Police said they had rented a room in a hotel to Read More …
More than 200 emergency services and security officers have held a large-scale counterterrorism drill at Hong Kong International Airport to strengthen the city’s response to bomb attacks and incursions from hostage-taking knifemen. Code-named “Ironwill”, officers from police and fire services Read More …
A suspected British-made wartime bomb has been uncovered near Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday village today. Officers from the explosive ordnance disposal bureau were called to the scene at noon, after a foreign man found the item inside Lei Read More …
Dozens of hikers trekking the Twins Peak near Stanley on Sunday were evacuated after wartime grenades were unearthed nearby. Just before 1 pm, police received reports that suspected explosives dating back to World War 2 had been found along the Read More …
Bomb disposal experts detonated an old mortar shell after a gardener found the explosive inside a detached house on 11 Big Wave Bay Road in Shek O. The force said officers were alerted to a 3-inch long metal shell around Read More …
A man who allegedly planted a suspected bomb at the roadside of Wing Fok Center in Fan Ling has been arrested and police believe the crime is protest-related. He was still being detained for questioning as of 9pm last night. Read More …
A 16-year-old teenager and a 52-year-old woman were arrested on Monday in Hong Kong on suspicion of making or possession of explosives, police said. Chow Cheung-yau, superintendent of the Hong Kong police’s Narcotics Bureau, told a press conference that the Read More …