First bomb use in Hong Kong demonstration, sharpening some police vehicles nearby

Hong Kong police officials announced on the 14th that a handmade bomb was used near an anti-government demonstration. No one was injured, but this was the first time a bomb was used in connection with a series of protests. After the Hong Kong government tightened tightening with the “No Masking Law”, the conflict has sharpened in part.

According to police announcement, the bomb was used around 8pm on the 13th. In the downtown area of ​​the Mongkok area on the Kowloon peninsula, an explosion sounded from one corner of the flowerbed on the street, and debris that appeared to be handmade bombs such as cell phone fragments and electric cords were found nearby.

On the same day, a protest demonstration was held on the same day, and at that time the police car parked in the vicinity because the police side was working on removing obstacles on the streets built by the demonstrators. The police believe that a bomb that was detonated by a mobile phone was set up.

In Hong Kong, protest demonstrations continued after the enforcement of the masking prohibition law on the 5th of this month, and demonstrations were called for at more than 20 locations on the 13th. On the same day in the Kandy area of ​​the Kowloon Peninsula, a third-year boy in high school was detained on the spot for cutting a police officer with a knife and hurting his neck. On the other hand, in the early morning of the 14th, the driver of the Hong Kong media interview team in the Mongkok district shot the head of the chin with a cloth bag bullet that was weaker than the actual bullet, and then hit the chin bone by being hit with a baton. Injury such as folding.

The human rights organization in Hong Kong has appealed that the situation has deteriorated, “Both sides should be restrained. The police can't solve it by high-pressure control. (Hong Kong = Hide Nishimoto)