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 a man who brandished a knife and took a woman hostage in a shopping centre, praising their bravery and decisiveness in averting further harm. 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 may have been influenced by drugs as suspected illegal substances were found in his...