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Hong Kong mall murders: 2 women stabbed to death in brutal knife attack, with ‘no concrete evidence’ of ties between assailant, victims

  • Attacker, 39, struck on third floor of Plaza Hollywood mall in Diamond Hill shortly after 5pm; two victims, aged 22 and 26, later died in hospital
  • Preliminary investigation has found ‘no concrete evidence’ suggesting the two dead women had any ties to assailant, police say

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Police officers cordon off the scene at the mall in Diamond Hill. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Clifford Lo,Ezra Cheung,Fiona ChowandJess Ma
Two women were stabbed to death in a shocking, seemingly random knife rampage at a Hong Kong shopping centre on Friday, before the man who attacked them was subdued and arrested when police arrived.
The assailant and the victims did not appear to know each other, according to Eileen Chung Lai-yee, a senior superintendent from police’s Kowloon East regional headquarters, who said their preliminary investigation had found “no concrete evidence” suggesting the two dead women had any ties to the 39-year-old jobless man before the attack.

“The relationship between the victims and the suspect, as well as his motivation, will be the focus of our investigation,” Chung said in a briefing just after midnight on Friday.

Two shoppers died after the attack at the Plaza Hollywood mall. Photo: SCMP
Two shoppers died after the attack at the Plaza Hollywood mall. Photo: SCMP

Viral video footage of the crime taken from a security camera at the Plaza Hollywood mall in Diamond Hill shows the man coming up behind the two shoppers shortly after 5pm and repeatedly stabbing one of them in a sustained attack that goes on for nearly a minute.

Nobody comes to help for the duration of the attack as the second woman tries to intervene again and again, only to be slashed at and stabbed herself.

Police later said the two women, aged 22 and 26, were unconscious when they were taken to United Christian Hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries at 6.47pm and 6.06pm, respectively. The women were friends, police said.

The woman initially attacked was stabbed more than 25 times.

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