Close shave for police officer as patrol car bursts into flames near Hong Kong’s Eastern Harbour Tunnel


A police officer escaped unscathed when a patrol car he was driving burst into flames near the entrance of Hong Kong’s Eastern Harbour Tunnel on Friday.

The officer was driving the car back to police headquarters in Wan Chai from the Kowloon Bay vehicle plant of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department when the incident happened shortly before 11am.

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