Hong Kong police defuse powerful pipe bomb in flat and arrest three men, including two with ‘links to radical protest group’


By Zoe Low
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Bomb disposal officers in Hong Kong defused a pipe bomb in a subdivided flat in Mong Kok and arrested three men in connection with the case on Tuesday night.

Two of the suspects, tertiary students aged 21 and 22, were arrested in Mong Kok and police believe they have links to a radical anti-government protest group.

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