Verified video shows police shooting man with knife in Hong Kongpublished at 16:32 GMT
16:32 GMT
Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify journalist
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We have verified a video of man armed with a knife being shot by police outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
The clip, which spread across local social media shortly after 19:00 local time (11:00 GMT), begins with the man waving a large knife on Tuen Wui Street outside Tuen Mun Town Plaza.
After moving from the street to a covered area just outside the mall he is briefly out of view, but the person filming follows him as bystanders begin to flee in panic.
Amongst the chaos we see the man briefly, he seems to have grabbed hold of someone who has fallen. Three police officers then appear wearing riot helmets, one of whom is also carrying a shield. Two shots are heard.
As the crowd parts, we see two people on the floor next to each other – the man with the backpack and a woman, who the officers immediately pull clear. The police then attend to the prone man, as more police officers arrive.
Local media reports say the later man later died in hospital.
We were able to verify where the video was filmed by matching the pillars, a tree, street signs and flower boxes to street view images.