There were dramatic scenes in Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei neighborhood last night followed by a yet-to-be-explained death, as a knife-wielding man terrorized motorists and pedestrians before finally being subdued and later declared dead at hospital.
The episode started at about 8:15pm when police received reports that a man, later identified as a 34-year-old surnamed Chan, was seen running around the junction between Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road wielding a knife, RTHK reports.
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Miss Lam, a witness who spoke to newspaper Apple Daily, said she was passing by the Eaton Hotel on Nathan Road when she saw the man in the middle of the road hitting a private minibus with the knife.
The driver, Mr. Wong, who was heading towards Tsim Sha Tsui, told Headline Pop (see video above): “He ran out and started telling me to open the door, I refused to open it and then he used his knife to hit my bus”.
After refusing to open the door, Wong said he slowly drove away, and could see the man running after another bus, the driver of which also refused to open the door.
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Lam, the witness, told Apple Daily that the man then lay in the middle of the road. “At first I thought maybe he got hit by a car, and then he got up,” she said.
Police told reporters that the man then ran across Nathan Road and into a store inside the Alhambra Building and threw the knife on the floor. He was then subdued by four people, including an off-duty police officer.
The man was sent to Kwong Wah Hospital where he was later declared dead at 9:04pm last night. Police said there were no scars on the deceased and they are looking into the cause of death.
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