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An unofficial member of Legislative Council this Tuesday afternoon called on Hong Kong Government to extend death penalty to cover crimes involving bombs.
Speaking on motion for adjournment of Council at today's meeting, Mr. Y.K. Kan said those who perpetrate such crimes without regard for human life must be made to realise that if they are caught they may have to pay extreme penalty that law can impose.
Kan described killing of two young children in North Point on Sunday as "wanton murder".
Kan said that unless stringent measures are at once imposed many more will suffer and he strongly urged Government to consider matter without delay.
In his reply, Colonial Secretary Mr. Holmes fully endorsed view expressed by Kan about brutal and cowardly murders last Sunday.
He assured Council that everything that is humanly possible is being done to prevent crimes of this kind and to apprehend those who have committed them.
During the day there have been almost thirty reports of bombs in various parts of Colony.
An explosion, believed to have been caused by homemade bomb, occurred outside Causeway Bay magistracy building at about three thirtyfive a.m.
Of reported bomb finds most of them proved to be fakes and rest were either detonated or disposed of by ballistics experts.
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