Hong Kong police on the hunt for 2 men who attacked taxi driver after quarrel
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“Hong Kong police on the hunt for 2 men who attacked taxi driver after quarrel”
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“Driver asked the pair blocking his vehicle to move aside, triggering an argument that led to the alleged attack, according to police”
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“Hong Kong police are on the hunt for two men who allegedly attacked a taxi driver they had an argument with in Yuen Long in the early hours of Friday”
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Wikipedia entries for Yuen Long Highway, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Kwok-yung are unrelated to the police incident described in the claim.
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— Fang Shilong (born Chan Kong-sang; 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan and Sing Lung, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor and filmmaker, known for his slapstick, acrobatic fighting s…
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— Yuen Kwok-yung (Chinese: 袁國勇; born 30 December 1956) is a Hong Kong microbiologist, physician, and surgeon. He is a prolific researcher, with most of his nearly 800 papers (as of December 2020) relat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Kwok-yung
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— Yuen Long Highway (Chinese: 元朗公路; pinyin: Yuánlǎng Gōnglù; Cantonese Yale: yun4 long5 gung1 lou6) is a Hong Kong expressway connecting Au Tau in Yuen Long and Lam Tei in Tuen Mun of New Territories.
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“The force received a report from the 57-year-old victim at 2.50am”
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— Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. It was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom from 184…
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— The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rul…
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— Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re…
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“The cabby said he had asked the two men blocking his vehicle off 3 Kau Yuk Road to move aside, but his plea triggered a quarrel and led to him being attacked by the pair”
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Wikipedia entries about telephone numbers, hospitals, and districts are unrelated to the incident details in the claim.
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— Telephone numbers in Hong Kong are mostly eight-digit. Fixed land line numbers start with 2 or 3, mobile (cellular) phone numbers with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, pager numbers with 7 and forwarding service …
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— Tsan Yuk Hospital is maternity hospital is located on 30 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island, is a public hospital in Hong Kong, It was specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. It also …
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— Yuen Long District (formerly Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021.
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“The two men, who are non-Chinese, fled after the attack”
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“Officers arriving at the scene found the victim with head injuries and sent him to Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long for treatment”
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“The Yuen Long district crime squad is investigating the case, which has been classified as wounding”
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