- Title: HONG KONG: FUNERAL OF VICTIMS OF TERRORIST ATTACK.
- Date: 7th September 1967
- Summary: FUNERAL PROCESSION. Initials DHC/V/AS/SM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 22nd September 1967 13:00
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- Location: HONG KONG
- Country: Hong Kong
- Reuters ID: LVARBS87H9IUCI4YGPV53NZVTB
- Story Text: THE WELL-KNOWN VICTIMS OF LEFTIST TERRORISM WERE BURIED QUIETLY IN HONG KONG YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY). THE MEN -- POPULAR RADIO COMEDIAN LAM BUN AND HIS COUSIN LAM KWONG-HOE -- DIED AFTER A PETROL BOMB ATTACK SEVERAL DAYS AGO. THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTED AMID STRICT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS.
STRONG PARTIES OF POLICE WITH WALKIE-TALKIES BLOCKED OFF THE ROAD LEADING TO THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY AT HAPPY VALLEY. POLICE WERE ALSO POSTED ON THE ROOFTOPS OF BUILDINGS IN THE AREA.
THE BODIES OF THE TWO COUSINS WERE BROUGHT TO THE CEMETERY SECRETLY -- ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL WERE NOT MADE PUBLIC. IT WAS FEARED THERE MAY HAVE BEEN RENEWED TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE MOURNERS.
LAM BUN'S SISTER FAINTED TWICE AS THE COFFINS WERE BEING LOWERED INTO THE GROUND, AND HIS WIDOW HAD TO BE SUPPORTED BY TWO RELATIVES.
THE COUSINS RECEIVED SERIOUS BURNS WHEN THEIR CAR WAS STOPPED BY TERRORISTS POSING AS ROAD WORKERS. THE TERRORISTS THREW A PETROL BOMB INTO THE CAR, POURED PETROL OVER THE TWO MEN AND THEN SET THEM ALIGHT.
LAM BUN DIED TWO DAYS LATER AND LAM KWONG-HOE DIED ON AUGUST 31.
LAM BUN, WHOSE NIGHTLY ANTI-COMMUNIST COMEDY BROADCASTS HAD A WIDE FOLLOWING, LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE YOUNG CHILDREN.
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