Police officers fire 5 shots at charging assailant carrying serrated knife, metal rod
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In the early hours of Saturday morning in Hong Kong, three police officers fired five shots at a man wielding a serrated knife and a metal rod. Police received reports of a man behaving abnormally and carrying weapons near the Tsuen Wan MTR station and Cheung Wing Road. Later, drivers reported the man on Castle Peak Road in Kwai Chung. When police officers arrived, the man emerged from bushes and charged at them. Verbal warnings and pepper spray were ineffective, leading three officers to fire shots to subdue him. The man is suspected to be mentally ill.
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AI-ExtractedOfficers issued verbal warnings before using pepper spray.
Police received reports that a man was carrying weapons and behaving abnormally.
The man was carrying a serrated knife and a metal rod.
Three Hong Kong police officers fired five shots at a man.
The man is suspected to be mentally ill.
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