The government was urged to explain how a high-speed rail passenger from the mainland was able to avoid immigration officials and slip into the SAR unnoticed, after walking along the train tracks at the West Kowloon terminus, RTHK reports. Civic Party lawmaker Jeremy Tam is raising the alarm over what he describes as a serious security loophole. In a letter to him, the government confirms that a mainland passenger, who had missed his stop in Shenzhen North, arrived in West Kowloon but didn't go through immigration clearance. Instead, he walked along the underground railway tracks undetected, before emerging out of an emergency exit at an MTR ventilation building in Hong Kong territory. He said it's thought the passenger was actually trying to walk all the way back to the mainland.

Source: The Standard February 27, 2020 08:26 UTC