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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1992
92 VIETNAMESE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH SHEK KONG INCIDENT
POLICE HAVE SO FAR ARRESTED 92 VIETNAMESE PEOPLE ALLEGEDLY CONNECTED WITH THE DISTURBANCES WHICH OCCURRED IN SHEK KONG DETENTION CENTRE ON MONDAY (FEBRUARY 3).
THEY ARE LIKELY TO BE CHARGED TOMORROW (THURSDAY) WITH RIOTING AND WILL APPEAR IN COURT ON FRIDAY.
INVESTIGATIONS INTO OTHER OFFENCES INCLUDING MURDER, ARSON AND
WOUNDING ARE CONTINUING.
POLICE BELIEVE THREE OF THE ARRESTED PERSONS ARE ALLEGEDLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING FIRE TO A HUT DURING THE INCIDENT WHICH LED TO THE DEATHS OF 21 VIETNAMESE PEOPLE.
ENQUIRIES REVEALED THAT MORE THAN 10 VIETNAMESE PEOPLE WERE SEEN BY EYE-WITNESSES ALLEGEDLY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM LEAVING THE HUT.
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AT PRESENT, APART FROM NORMAL POLICE DUTIES AT THE CENTRE, COMPANY OF POLICE TACTICAL UNIT HAS BEEN DEPLOYED AT SHEK KONG AND WILL REMAIN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
TENSION WITHIN THE CENTRE DECREASED FOLLOWING THE DISTURBANCE AND AN INCIDENT LAST NIGHT (FEBRUARY 4) WAS QUICKLY DEFUSED AND QRDER RESTORED WITH PROMPT POLICE ACTION.
DURING YESTERDAY NIGHT'S INCIDENT, A LARGE CROWD GATHERED IN SECTION 'B' OF THE CENTRE AND SET FIRE TO SOME BLANKETS WHILE PEOPLE FROM SECTION 'A' ATTEMPTED TO BREAK OUT FROM THE SECTION.
POLICE FIRED THREE ROUNDS OF CS SHELLS AT ABOUT 8.45 PM AND THE CROWDS QUICKLY DISPERSED.
TODAY, POLICE CONTINUED TO RELOCATE ALL NORTHERNERS IN THE CENTRE TO HEI LING CHAU. A TOTAL OF 1,505 VIETNAMESE PEOPLE WERE MOVED IN THREE BATCHES AND THE REMAINING 500 WILL BE RELOCATED TOMORROW.
POLICE RELOCATED 419 PEOPLE YESTERDAY.
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF POLICE TACTICAL UNIT, POLICE ALSO CONDUCTED A SEARCH OF SECTION 'A' FOR WEAPONS BEGINNING AT ABOUT 2 PM AND LASTED UNTIL 6 PM.
CENTRE MANAGEMENT
PRIOR ΤΟ THE SEARCH, NEGOTIATED THE SURRENDER OF 153 HOME-MADE VIETNAMESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SECTION.
HAD SUCCESSFULLY
WEAPONS
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LATER, POLICE CONFISCATED 243 ITEMS CONSISTED OF MOSTLY WOODEN PLANKS AND OTHER ARTICLES WHICH OFFICERS BELIEVED COULD BE MADE INTO POTENTIAL WEAPONS DURING THE SUBSEQUENT SEARCH.
/A SPOKESMAN