Hong Kong acid attacks
series of crimes in Hong Kong
The Mong Kok acid attacks (旺角高空投擲腐蝕性液體傷人案) were a series of acid attacks from 2008 to 2010 where plastic bottles filled with drain cleaner, a corrosive liquid, were thrown onto shoppers on Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Hong Kong, a pedestrian street and popular shopping area. Originally, a reward of HK$100,000 was offered for information about the perpetrator(s), but following the second incident it was raised to HK$300,000, and cameras were planned to be installed in the area. The third incident occurred the very day the cameras were turned on. The fifth incident happened after Hong Kong government announced its new strategies against the incident.
13 December 2008 incident
The first incident occurred on 13 December at 5:15 pm near the intersection of Sai Yeung Choi Street South and Shantung Street. Two bottles of an unspecified corrosive liquid were hurled into the crowd, possibly from the 12th floor of the Yuen King Building, onto a popular pedestrianised street area below where many were Christmas shopping.
The bottles hit the ground and exploded, which splashed 46 people with corrosive fluids that burned through clothes and skin. People took refuge in nearby shops where water was poured onto the spilled acid to dilute it. Only minor injuries occurred, and by the next day all of the victims were released from the hospital. Two days after the attack, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang personally came to examine the area.
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