Hong Kong Security Force Warns Against Mourning Police Attacker
- Security police investigate incident as domestic terror attack
- 50-year-old man stabbed officer on anniversary of Chinese rule
Photographer: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
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Hong Kong’s national security police took over the investigation into the stabbing of a policeman and cautioned citizens from mourning the attacker’s death, calling the incident a domestic terrorist attack on the 24th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule.
The National Security Department, which investigates offenses that endanger national security, is now probing the July 1 incident that occurred on a busy street in one of the city’s most popular shopping districts. The attacker, an unnamed 50-year-old man who local media said worked for a soy-milk maker, used a knife to wound a male police officer from behind before turning it on himself, an attack caught on video.