A man in Tseung Kwan O set a piece of paper on fire and threw it into a mailbox

7/2/2025 6:18

A man in Tseung Kwan O lit a piece of paper and put it into a mailbox. The fire was put out by firefighters and the letter was not damaged. The police classified the case as arson and are hunting for the man involved.



The police received a report from a female passerby at around 10pm last night, saying that she saw a man passing by the Tseung Kwan O Lohas Park Station Public Transport Interchange, tearing up a piece of promotional paper near a post box, then setting it on fire, and then throwing the burning paper into the post box, and then fleeing the scene.



The fire department arrived at the scene after receiving the report and opened the mailbox. They found a piece of paper with burn marks inside. They took out the paper and put out the fire. The letters in the mailbox were not damaged. The fire department believed that the cause of the fire was suspicious and handed the case over to the police.



After investigation, the police are following up on the arson case. No one has been arrested yet. They are looking for a fat man about 1.6 meters tall who was wearing a blue top, black shorts and black sneakers at the time of the incident.