Mong Kok riot: Injured Hong Kong policeman recovering after operation and eager to return to work
DAB legislator Elizabeth Quat and other pro-establishment councillors visit sergeant in Queen Elizabeth Hospital
The police sergeant injured in the riot that broke out in Mong Kok on Monday night has been recovering and looking forward to returning to work, a lawmaker revealed yesterday.
Legislator Elizabeth Quat, who visited Sergeant Tony Wong Lok-on at Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a group of pro-establishment lawmakers on Tuesday, said the policeman still found it painful to breathe or speak after suffering fractures to his cheekbones and skull. He received nearly 30 stitches to his face, she added.
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Quat said she was told that “Wong’s surgery on Wednesday morning was successful ... but he could not sleep well [on Wednesday night] because his breathing was affected by the gauze and cotton patches on his face.” But he felt better after a doctor fixed the problem, she added.
Wong was one of the six people who remained in hospital on Wednesday night. A total of 130 were admitted after the riot.
A police source told the Post that Wong was part of the police community relations team that arrived in Mong Kok at around 11pm on Monday before the situation deteriorated, and they had no riot gear.
According to a Post photographer on the scene that night, Wong collapsed into a sitting position during the riot after he was hit by a brick. He and a colleague were bending over a man who had just been apprehended when he was struck. The pair were a few feet behind a line of officers with tall shields as bricks rained down on them.
