Hong Kong police are searching for a hoaxer who sounded like a scared boy and made several fake emergency phone calls claiming that 25 teachers and students were trapped by a hill fire in Pat Sin Leng, Tai Po.
Police received four separate calls at about 1.45pm on Thursday from a person who reported a blaze on the 511-metre Hsien Ku Fung, one of eight peaks in the Pat Sin Leng range in the northeastern New Territories.
The caller claimed that four teachers and 21 pupils were stranded on the…