HONG KONG: A restaurant owner was strapped with an explosive device by robbers and forced to withdraw HK$5mil (RM2.4mil) from a Bank of China branch here on Thursday.
However, the extortion-cum-robbery attempt was foiled when bank staff, noticing that the man identified only as Tang looked nervous, called the police.
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