Hong Kong police said a homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to 'kill or to harm' riot control officers was detonated over the weekend.
A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub.
But despite spiraling violence, widespread vandalism and gasoline-bomb attacks by black-clad hardcore protesters — and repeated government appeals for people not to take their side — the protest movement is still rousing determined support from more moderate demonstrators broadly worried about the future of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory and its freedoms, unique in China.
The majority of demonstrators wore face masks, a practice first adopted by many to protect their identities amid profound distrust of the police and government but now also a symbol of dissent since Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, made the wearing of masks at rallies punishable by a year in jail.
“There was a loud thud,” Chin-chiu Suryanto, an officer with the police force’s bomb-disposal unit, said through a translator. The “improvised explosive device that was controlled by a mobile phone” was concocted with a “highly effective” explosive and placed in plants, he said. He likened its use to “terrorist events” seen elsewhere in the world.
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