Chris Tang said Police fired at knife-wielding man to save a life

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In Tuen Mun Town Plaza last night, a knife-wielding man took a woman as hostage before being subdued and fatally shot by police.

Secretary for Security Chris Tang said the assailant had lost his mind at the time, and that the police faced a difficult decision to fire. He praised the officers who fired as brave and decisive.

He said preliminary investigation suggests that the assailant was mentally unstable at the time, and drugs were found on him.

Tang said It's clear that the assailant was completely out of his mind.

He thanked his frontline colleagues, saying the decision to fire was not easy, and that the officers were very brave and decisive.

“This is closely related to our usual training,” Tang said.

“I think I trained like this when I was a police officer: When a knife is about to be plunged in, should we shoot? Should we shoot him? Where should we shoot? This decision is not easy, but in order to save lives, we must make decisive actions.”

"In the situation where the victim was about to be stabbed, we immediately shot the largest part of his body to stop these potentially life-threatening actions.”