HONG KONG • The issue of triads has resurfaced following an incident on July 21 in which a mob of men armed with sticks and batons beat up commuters and passers-by in a metro station in the northern district of Yuen Long.
Police have since arrested 12 people, a number of them with links to organised crime gangs. They are believed to have a stronghold in the New Territories, a large, mostly rural area in northern Hong Kong that borders mainland China.
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