Hong Kong: Cops arrest nine secondary school students for allegedly assaulting a 14-year-old; 12 juveniles arrested for prostitution offences


Hong Kong police have arrested nine secondary school students on suspicion of assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a dispute over trivial matters on the roof of a building in the New Territories.

The suspects, five boys and four girls between 13 and 16 years old, were rounded up in a series of raids on Saturday and Sunday, according to the force.

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