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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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15 October 1967
UNCLASSIFIED
Press.
150700 Attention Glover.
Four police officers, one army ammunition expert and twenty-two civilians were injured yesterday in four explosions in Hong Kong. An army ammunition expert was injured when he was detonating a bomb in Hunghom in the morning. Sixteen people, including two police inspectors, were injured by a bomb which was thrown from height outside Wanchai market at about noon. Two hours later, eight people were injured in two separate explosions in Wanchai. A police inspector and a constable were injured in another explosion in Hunghom about an hour later. One hundred and twenty-three objects suspected to be bombs were dealt with by army ammunition experts yesterday. Thirty-five of these proved to be genuine.
Five people, including two women, were arrested by the police for either carrying or planting bombs.
A tribute was paid by the police to the civic consciousness of members of public who had assisted the police to arrest suspected bomb planters. A police spokesman said that they were very grateful to those people for setting a fine exapmple of co-operation with the police in helping to beat the present bomb menace. He continued that the police were determined to use every available means, including the use of firearms, to stamp out this wanton menace to the lives of the public.
Ends informs.
Sir D. Trench
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
C.O. Hong Kong Dept.
I. & G.D.
News Dept.
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