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One man injured in another Hong Kong acid attack

03:34 08/03/2010

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Acid attack in Hong Kong

A man was slightly injured in another acid attack in a busy tourist area in downtown Hong Kong, local media reported on Monday.

A beer bottle containing corrosive liquid was cast down onto a pedestrian street in the district of Sham Shui Po, but luckily it shattered after falling on a roof of an electronics shop preventing a large number of casualties.

One man received slight burns from the spilled acid, but he refused from a hospital treatment.

This is the 12th acid attack in the city since December of 2008, which in all injured over 100 people.

HONG KONG, March 8 (RIA Novosti)

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