Indian restaurant and shop in Chungking Mansions vandalised and damaged by 10 South Asians, 1 injured

2265

13th November 2020 – (Hong Kong) At 7pm last night (12th), a group of 10 South Asians wearing masks and caps broke into an Indian Restaurant at Chungking Mansions in TST to cause nuisance. They were armed with hammers, beef knives, baseball bat, and umbrellas as weapons and some of them picked up chairs and threw them. The two employees were frightened and hid in the restaurant. During the commotion, the glass cabinet was broken and a large refrigerator was pushed to the ground.

When an Indian (46-year-old) male employee tried to stop them, he was attacked with a hammer and knife. The incident lasted around 1 minute, and they left the scene. When the police rushed to the report. The injured staff was sent to the hospital by ambulance for treatment. During the investigation by the police, it was discovered that another shop on the ground floor of the same building that specialises in selling phone cards was also vandalised. A glass cabinet was overturned and the shop was in a mess. The police did not rule out that the two cases were committed by the same group of suspects. CCTV footage was checked to track down the suspects.