By Sammy Heung
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after brandishing a knife while looking for her husband at City University of Hong Kong in Kowloon Tong.
Police said a security guard reported that the wife of a colleague was seen holding a knife on a campus bridge at around 9.53am on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the force said the 45-year-old woman had first arrived at the bridge claiming that she could not find her husband.
She left the campus and bought a 21cm-long (8.2 inches) ceramic knife from a supermarket before returning to the university in search of her husband.
A 52-year-old security guard told the woman that her husband was not on campus. The woman then pointed the knife at the security guard, causing a 4cm 鈥渞ed mark鈥 on his chest, according to police.
The guard was sent to the Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po for treatment.
Other security guards alerted police and officers arrived at the scene. The woman was found to be 鈥渆motionally agitated鈥. She was later arrested for allegedly possessing an offensive weapon.
An investigation into the case was under way.
Last month, police arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a taxi driver with a knife after the cabby woke him up when they arrived at his destination in Tai Kok Tsui.
In May, a student was sentenced to more than 25 weeks in prison for attacking a woman and striking another four people, including two police officers, at City University two months earlier. He became agitated after the woman asked him to reduce the volume of a video he was playing on his phone in the campus canteen.
Local media reported that a postgraduate student from the University of Hong Kong was charged with possessing an offensive weapon after he allegedly brought a kitchen knife to the campus last October with the intent to threaten a professor.