An eight-year-old boy turned himself in for making hoax calls about a hill fire trapping 25 teachers and pupils in Hong Kong, with police giving him a verbal warning.
The force said on Friday that the boy surrendered himself at a police station the previous day and admitted to making fake emergency phone calls in which he claimed that four teachers and 21 pupils were stranded on the Pat Sin Leng mountain range in Tai Po due to a blaze.
“After a preliminary investigation, officers issued a verbal…