9 arrested over alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong

Tuesday, 6 July 2021Newsdesk
9 arrested over alleged plot to plant bombs around Hong Kong
Hong Kong police on Tuesday said they arrested nine people on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity, after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city.

New Delhi, 06 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express,The arrests come amid a political divisive time in Hong Kong, two years after months of massive anti-government protests rocked the city. Last week, a Hong Kong man stabbed a police officer with a knife, before killing himself. Of the nine arrested, six are secondary school students. The group were attempting to make the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in a homemade laboratory in a hostel, police said.They planned to use the TATP to bomb courts, cross-harbour tunnels, railways and even planned to put some of these explosives in trash bins on the street to maximize damage caused to the society,” police said.

Source -The Indian Express

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