THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1987
PUBLIC URGED TO HELP WITH BOMB ENQUIRIES
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, AND THE CHIEF SECRETARY, MR DAVID FORD, TODAY (THURSDAY) APPEALED TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG TO COME FORWARD TO ASSIST POLICE IN THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO YESTERDAY'S BOMBING INCIDENT IN TAIKOO SHING AND TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS THAT THEY SAW+.
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER TOURING THE NORTH DISTRICT, SIR DAVID SAID THAT +ALL OF US FEEL ENORMOUS ANGER THAT PEOPLE SHOULD CARRY OUT THIS SORT OF VICIOUS ATTACK ON INNOCENT PEOPLE.+
MR FORD, WHO HAD EARLIER OPENED THE VISITOR CENTRE AT SHING MUN COUNTRY PARK, TOLD REPORTERS THAT IT WAS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE OF PEOPLE TO PLANT BOMBS IN CROWDED SHOPPING AREAS AND INJURING INNOCENT PEOPLE.
BOTH THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHIEF SECRETARY STRESSED THAT THE POLICE WERE DEVOTING ALL THEIR EFFORTS TO FINDING OUT WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.
+ THE ONE ADDITIONAL POINT I WOULD MAKE IS WHAT THE POLICE HAVE ALREADY SAID, AND THAT IS IF ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ANYTHING WHICH CAN HELP THE POLICE IN THEIR ENQUIRIES, I VERY MUCH HOPE THEY WOULD COME FORWARD,+ SIR DAVID SAID.
+WE MUST FIND WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE.
WE MUST STOP THIS SORT OF
THING FROM HAPPENING IN HONG KONG, HE ADDED.
ASKED IF THE INCIDENT WOULD AFFECT STABILITY IN HONG KONG, SIR DAVID SAID HE DID NOT THINK THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE AFFECTED IN THAT SORT OF WAY,
+IT'S MUCH MORE A HUMAN DRAMA . WE FEEL ANNOYED THAT THIS SHOULD HAPPEN TO INNOCENT PEOPLE GOING AROUND THEIR ORDINARY BUSINESS, AND FOR THAT REASON, IT MUST BE STOPPED+.
MR FORD SAID THE PLANTING OF BOMBS IN SHOPPING ARCADES WAS A VERY SAD EVENT, BUT HE HAD BEEN ASSURED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE THIS MORNING THAT THE POLICE WERE SPARING NO EFFORT AT ALL TO TRY TO FIND OUT AS MUCH AS THEY COULD ABOUT THE BOMB AND WHO PLANTED IT.
+THEY ARE SPARING NO EFFORTS TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE IN HONG KONG IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO HAVE THIS SORT OF INCIDENTS HAPPENING WITHOUT HAVING THE CULPRITS BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE, HE SAID.
AS TO THE MOTIVE FOR PLANTING THE BOMBS, MR FORD SAID THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE WAS WORKING ON THAT PROBLEM, BUT HE HAD HAD NO INDICATION AT ALL SO FAR AS TO WHAT MIGHT BE THE MOTIVES OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
HE ADDED THAT THE POLICE WERE VERY CONCERNED WITH THESE INCIDENTS AND WERE LIAISING WITH THE BUILDING MANAGEMENT PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE MORE VIGILANT.
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