Employees at Metro Radio in Hung Hom were evacuated on Wednesday after a package containing white powder was received in the post.
The police told HKFP that staff members at the Whampoa Garden headquarters alerted them at 12:16pm.
Metro Radio headquarters were closed. Photo: Apple Daily.
According to Apple Daily, several packets of white powder were contained within a manila envelope addressed to Li Ka-Shing, the city’s richest man. It cited a source as saying that police believed the substance to be powdered cooking starch upon preliminary examination.
Photo: Apple Daily.
The bomb squad were initially on the scene, though the Kowloon City district crime squad will now work to determine the sender’s motive.
Photo: Apple Daily.
Founded in 1991, Metro Broadcast Corporation in of Hong Kong’s three radio broadcasting companies. It is owned by Li’s Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited.
