Lantau Island
164. On the morning of 22nd February 1967 a 12 year old boy reported to the Police that two bodies were lying in an abandoned silver mine on Lantau Island. The report was later confirmed to be false, but not before an intensive two day search by personnel of the Search and Rescue Division had been carried out. The mine, which had not been worked for over 20 years, consisted of a maze of galleries and shafts some of which were flooded. Lights used by the search parties disturbed hundreds of bats which inhabited the mine. Despite the dangerous conditions the operation was carried out without incident or injury to personnel.
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