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Manhunt in Hong Kong: Citywide Search for Five Raiders After Former Village Chief Killed in Daytime Knife and Ax Attack
A former Hong Kong village chief was killed in an apparently well-organized knife attack on a tombstone factory in the New Territories on Tuesday, prompting a city-wide manhunt for the gang involved. Detectives were also investigating whether the gang used a GPS tracker to find the location of the victim, Pang Yuk-wang, 57, before sending four perpetrators to launch the 10-second attack. A police source said that security camera footage showed a man, dressed in black, pulling an item out of the underside of the victim’s car as the four culprits ran out of the factory office after the attack. Pang’s car was parked in front of the attackers’ vehicle. Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the great stories originating from China. “It is possible that the man was part of the gang. We suspect that he removed a GPS tracking device from the victim’s vehicle, “the source said, adding that further investigation was needed to confirm this. Police were called around 11:47 am when the attack took place on Wo Hing Road, On the outskirts of the Wo Hop Shek village in Fanling. The man was convicted of murdering his girlfriend by stabbing her 33 times with a chef’s knife. Photo showed the gang arriving at the factory in a black seven-seater vehicle, with four men, wearing surgical masks and black clothing, jumping and running into the office. One of them tripped outside. Pang was working at the factory, which he was driving, at the time of the attack, police said. Shortly after entering the factory, the gang ran off and sped in their vehicle, driven by a fifth suspect. The man believed to have removed a tracking device ran off in a different direction. ” emergency personnel, the victim was found unconscious in a pool of blood, “said a police spokesman. Pan was taken to the Northern District Hospital, where he was certified dead shortly after 12:30 pm The attackers are believed to be between 20 and 30 years old. One of the people who called and raised the alarm told police that the attackers were carrying axes and knives. The ‘strange murder’ of a Hong Kong schoolgirl whose body was stuffed in a TV box Police mounted a search, but no arrests were made. Pang was the Wo Hop Shek Village representative from 2015 to 2019. The Post learned that he was the victim of At a press conference Tuesday night, Chief Inspector Jonathan Kwan Chun-hin of the regional crime unit of New Territories North, said the victim was working at the factory, which he had taken over, on the personal background of the victim and if the attack involved triad gangs would be investigation directions, Kwan said, and He added that Pang’s main business was carving headstones in nearby cemeteries, but investigators had to examine whether he also provided other funeral services. “The police are launching a multidirectional investigation, which will include the personal background of the deceased, possible commercial disputes, territorial interests and human relations. When asked if the attack involved the use of GPS devices, Kwan said that the police had not yet investigated further. . Kwan urged anyone with information to call investigators at 3661 3360. This article Hong Kong: Citywide search for five assailants after former village chief killed in daytime knife attack, axes first appeared in South China Morning Post For the latest news from the South China Morning Post, download our mobile app. Copyright 2020.
