Hong Kong police have arrested five youngsters on suspicion of repeatedly slapping a 14-year-old girl in a shopping centre last year after a video went viral online.
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The force said on Saturday that it had received a report the day before about an argument over “trivial matters” at a rear staircase of a Mong Kok shopping centre in August last year, with the teenage girl allegedly slapped multiple times.
A video that has been shared widely on social media shows a girl being surrounded by a group of youngsters who slap her at least 15 times, with some encouraging others to “slap harder”. Some of them can also be heard swearing at her.
The Mong Kok district crime squad launched an investigation, with officers arresting four alleged male assailants and one female suspect, aged 15 to 22, on Friday and Saturday over assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
They are being detained for further investigation.
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A source said the girl was attacked at Golden Era Plaza in Sai Yee Street and at least eight people were involved, with some of them being her classmates.