Gunfire in Tsim Sha Tsui

Open gunfire is such a rarity in Hong Kong that when it happens it makes the headlines, even more so when a cop is killed in the line of duty.

The big story is that not one, but two officers have been shot in the head, with a gun belonging to another officer who died five years ago.

A police officer was killed and another critically wounded in Tsim Sha Tsui ... during a shootout with a gunman - who has also died.

The two uniformed officers were shot in the head after stopping the man, who had been seen acting suspiciously, at the junction of Canton and Austin roads at about 1.30am.

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A police spokesman with the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau said they believed one of the guns discovered had belonged to police constable Leung Shing-yan, who died five years ago while on duty. At the time, he had lost his revolver.

If anything good can be said to come from this event, it's that it occurred at night, when no civilians were around to be hit by stray rounds.

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Update: the suspect was a rogue police officer who'd been stationed at Tung Chung on Lantau Island.

In a ferocious exchange of fire, he shot the constable through the head and shot his colleague in the face and leg but was fatally wounded by returning fire from the second officer.

Ten shots were fired in the gun battle during which a frantic radio message from the dead constable's colleague brought police reinforcements racing to the bloody scene.

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Three police service revolvers were found lying on the ground, two belonging to the uniformed officers and the third a revolver later found to have been stolen from a policeman murdered in 2001.

The stolen revolver was snatched from a police officer and used to shoot him dead in an execution-style killing as he answered a routine emergency call. The killer was never found.

Police identity documentation was found on the body of the plain-clothes rogue cop ...

All this because the two officers felt the suspect was behaving in a suspicious manner.

The whole incident sounds as though it were ripped from a screenplay.

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