Hong Kong subway shootout in 2006 leaves 2 policemen dead – SCMP archive
2026.03.17 02:50 The shootout happened at the junction of Canton Road and Austin Road in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Handout This article was first published on March 18, 2006 by Benjamin Wong and Clifford Lo An off-duty policeman shot two uniformed constables, killing one of them, with a gun stolen from and used to kill an officer five years ago, police sources said yesterday (March 17, 2006). The off-duty constable, Tsui Po-ko, 35, was also killed in the shootout in Tsim Sha Tsui in the early hours of yesterday. Police sources said evidence at the scene suggested that Tsui fired the first shots using the service revolver taken from constable Leung Shing-yan, who was murdered in 2001 after he answered a bogus noise complaint in Tsuen Wan. The gun was found in the blood-spattered underpass where Tsui died along with Constable Tsang Kwok-hang, 33. Tsang’s partner, Sin Ka-keung, 28, remained in a serious condition in the intensive-care unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital last night. Investigators were having difficulty piecing together exactly what happened, because Constable Sin, the only witness, had not been able to talk to them. But the gunfight is believed to have broken out after the constables, attached to Patrol Sub-Unit One of Tsim Sha Tsui police station, tried to stop Tsui for a search. Police Commissioner Dick Lee Ming-kwai said preliminary investigations indicated that 10 shots were fired. A police source said seven were fired by the two patrol constables and another three from Tsui’s gun. “We all commended the willpower of the two officers who managed to return fire and gun down the suspect before they collapsed,” the source said. It is understood that the injured Constable Sin pressed the emergency button on his walkietalkie to alert police to a shooting case before he fell. A clipping from the frontpage of SCMP’s March 18, 2006 issue. Photo: SCMP He was found lying semi-conscious next to Tsui, while Tsa
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