A Chinese youth was. wounded in the right thigh during an attempted armed robbery yesterday when six men, two of them armed with pistols, entered a Chinese private hospital, owned by Dr. D. M. Chung at 126 Avenue Road, at about 10 am. yesterday.
The six men walked into the nospital where at the time several persons were awaiting their turn to be treated by the doctor. One of the armed men was left outside the office to keep a look-out, while the rest went in, The look-out man kept toying with his pistol and accidentally pulled the trigger with the result that the youth, stated to be about sixteen or seventeen years of age, was wounded. Hearing the pistol go off, the other bandits ran out of the office and escaped without stealing a thing.
The youth, who prior to the shooting was waiting for the doctor to examine him, had his wound dressed. An emergency ambulance was then called out and the wounded was taken to the Paulun Hospital. His condition was not thought to be serious
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