Pair arrested after 3 Hong Kong customs officers slashed in drug raid

Hong Kong police have arrested two people after three customs officers were attacked with a knife during an anti-drug operation, with all of them now in a stable condition.

The pair, arrested in Mong Kok at 12.45am and in Kowloon City at 3am on Friday, were believed to have executed an escape plan for a wanted man.

According to a source, eight customs officers who mounted an operation on Thursday stopped a wanted man and brought him to a unit in To Kwa Wan for investigation, during which he injured three officers with a 30cm kitchen knife.

Police officers soon arrived at the scene to back up customs, with paramedics treating the injured officers, aged 29 to 42, who sustained knife wounds between four and 10cm long on their knees, forearms and heels, the insider added.

The wanted man, aged 38 and about 1.75 to 1.8 metres tall, was nowhere to be seen when police broke into the flat after customs officers had evacuated and locked him inside.

He was believe to have escaped through the kitchen to a back staircase, with closed-circuit television footage showing that he was headed towards Lok Shan Road. Police later found a black Toyota registered to him in the residential building Grandview Garden, as well as the knife used at 47 Cheung Ning Street.