Twin brothers aged 10 have been arrested by police after holding up shops and terrorising residents on a Hong Kong public housing estate, a news report said on Monday.
The boys were arrested on Sunday after they started a fire by piling up newspapers and magazines and setting them alight in a playground in the city’s Kwai Chung district.
They have previously had scrapes with the law by holding up shops using toy guns, stealing supermarket trolleys, and smashing windows and fire alarms on the Tai Wo Hau estate where they live.
Neighbours are exasperated with the behaviour of the twins, who live with their single mother and 11-year-old sister on the estate, the South China Morning Post reported.
The two boys were released on bail of HK$50 (about R36) each and ordered to report back to police on December 30 after Sunday’s incident, a police spokesperson said. — Sapa-DPA