Police open fire in Aberdeen

Police are investigating a Police open fire case in which a police officer and a man were injured in Aberdeen last night (August 9).

Shortly after 9.45 pm, Police received a report in which a drunk man was hurting himself in a unit of Wah Lok House in Wah Fu Estate in Aberdeen.

Police officers arrived at scene and found the 45-year-old man and his 77-year-old mother inside the unit.

During enquiry, the woman left the unit with no injury and the man who seemed to be drunk was getting emotional. After Police officers left the unit to calm the man down, the man suddenly rushed out of the unit with an attempt to attack the police officers with a chopper, a dagger and a baton but in vain.

When the man attacked a 43-year-old Police Sergeant with the chopper, the latter gave three verbal warnings to the man but in vain and the Sergeant subsequently opened three shots to subdue the man.

During the open fire, a 36-year-old woman Police Sergeant (WSGT) got a gun-shot wound to her left calf. Both the WSGT and the 45-year-old man who was arrested for assaulting police officer were rushed to Queen Mary Hospital where they were admitted in stable condition.

Investigations by District Crime Squad of Western District are proceeding.


Police Report No. 1
Issued by PPRB

END/Friday, August 10, 2007