An individual or group is causing mayhem in Hong Kong by hurling plastic bottles filled with acid into busy shopping streets filled with pedestrians. It's happened six times in the last year, most recently over the weekend. From CNN:
Shopkeeper Khan Mohammed Bilal runs an electronics store, and he was working Saturday night when he heard the commotion. He stepped out into the intersection of Temple Street and Nanking Street and saw chaos.
Someone had just thrown two plastic bottles of acid into the intersection. He saw one person's red bag soaked with acid. He said he couldn't imagine what would've happened if the acid had splashed onto the person's head. He saw injured people crying.
"We do get nervous. We do feel scared. When this happens, it affects our business… I don't know the purpose of this, why this person is throwing this liquid."
"Acid attacks are 'easy' in Hong Kong"
