Hong Kong police are searching for a man believed to have snatched mobile phones from two MTR commuters moments before the train doors closed.
Police said they received a report at 8.24pm on Thursday from a woman, surnamed Tung, who said her phone was stolen at Lai King MTR station.
Less than 10 minutes later, they received a second report from another woman, surnamed Wong at Mei Foo MTR station, also saying that somebody had grabbed her phone.
The suspect is a man in his 30s with long hair, who was wearing a navy top and shorts at the time of the suspected offences, police said.
According to local media, in the first incident, the woman got on a Tsuen Wan Line train at Lai King MTR station when, just as the doors were closing, a man snatched her OPPO FIND X9 phone and ran out to the platform.
The woman got off at the next stop, Mei Foo, where she sought help from station staff.
In the second incident, another woman, Wong, had her iPhone 14 snatched inside the train when it stopped at Mei Foo MTR station. Just before the doors closed, the suspect took her phone and ran out of the train.
Police said the phone in the first incident was worth around HK$4,000, while the phone in the second was worth around HK$9,000.
Nobody was injured in the incidents.
The cases were classified as robberies and are being investigated by officers in the police’s Sham Shui Po division.
