Hong Kong’s Chris Tang defends police’s ‘difficult decision’ to shoot knife-wielding man

Hong Kong’s security chief has defended police’s “difficult decision” to shoot dead a man who brandished a knife and took a woman hostage in a shopping centre, but a relative of the deceased said officers could have aimed for his limbs to avoid killing him. After officers fatally shot the 34-year-old man on Thursday at Tuen Mun Town Plaza, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said the suspect was mentally unstable at the time and might have been influenced by drugs as suspected illegal...