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Two thieves broke into the foot bath shop, thrashed their heads and robbed the proprietress, passers-by chased the thief for 300 meters

2021-02-22T21:04:44.920Z


A head-bashing robbery occurred in Wan Chai. One man was arrested and one was at large. At about 2 am, two men reportedly entered a foot bath shop at 527 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, claiming to be patronizing massage services. However, the two men entered the shop


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Written by: Liu Ding'an, Deng Haixing, and Chen Yongwu

2021-02-23 04:51

The last update date: 2021-02-23 04:51

A head-bashing robbery occurred in Wan Chai. One man was arrested and one was at large.

At about 2 am, two men reportedly entered a foot bath shop at 527 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, claiming to be patronizing massage services.

However, after the two men entered the shop, one of them took the opportunity to open the drawer in the shop and tried to steal. The 44-year-old proprietress found out and stopped immediately, but was beaten to the head by the two men with hard objects such as hammers and irons. About 1,000 yuan in cash.

After the attack, the proprietress broke her blood and was wounded and chased her out to the door of Sogo Department Store about 80 meters away, without stopping.

When other enthusiastic passers-by saw this, they immediately joined the hunt. It is understood that the police received at least 3 passers-by calls to report the case. Some passers-by followed the culprit secretly and kept talking with the police. They kept updating the whereabouts of the culprit and telling the appearance and clothing of the culprit. Features etc.

A passer-by witnessed the culprit walking outside the Park Lane Hotel at 310 Gloucester Road and crossing Gloucester Road into Victoria Park.

The distance from Sogo to Parklan Hotel is about 300 meters, and the pursuit of pedestrians ends here.

Upon receiving the above information, the Hong Kong Island Stormtrooper of the Police rushed to the Victoria Park to search around. One of the police officers entered the Victoria Park from the entrance of Hing Fat Street to round up the culprits. During the period, they found a target man and launched a pursuit.

The target man fled to Shun Tak Street opposite Victoria Park and walked into a hotel.

The police blocked the hotel and eventually arrested a man in one of the units.

It is known that the man is Indonesian and his appearance matches the characteristics of the suspect provided by witnesses earlier. The police arrested him as suspected of "robbery" and are investigating his motives for committing the crime, including whether he has been in Hong Kong for a long time. "Strong and risky.

The police are also looking for the whereabouts of another thief who is also Indonesian.

The robbed cash is still in the hands of fugitives.

At the same time, the ambulancemen rushed to Sogo to give first aid to the victim.

The victim was bandaged on her head and was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital by ambulance for treatment.

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