Police are on the hunt for a man who fled an apartment in Tuen Mun after stabbing a couple this morning.
Apple Daily reports that police received a report at around 9am that two people — a man and a woman — had been spotted on Castle Peak Road with knife wounds.
The pair are believed to be a couple, both are 36-year-old Vietnamese nationals, and were living together in a sub-divided flat inside a building on Castle Peak Road.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found the man was wearing only his underwear and had collapsed on a flower bed, while the woman was completely naked and sitting by the lobby entrance of the building they live in.
Both were taken to Tuen Mun Hospital, the woman with a four-centimeter knife wound on her lower jaw, and the man with a minor cut to his head and six-centimeter knife wounds on both arms.
The man was unconscious, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Speaking to reporters gathered in the area this afternoon, inspector Wong Yiu-ming said that a preliminary investigation found that the victims had entered Hong Kong illegally, and that police were still trying to determine when and how they arrived in the city, on.cc reports.
Wong added that police are looking for a third man, also a Vietnamese national, about 1.7 to 1.8 meters tall, aged between 35 and 40, with short hair and a medium build.
Police also seized a kitchen knife from the scene.
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