Sources: Hong Kong Police Will Formally Charge Teenager with Bomb Plot Conspiracy

Police will move to formally charge a 15 year old boy, surnamed Law, with conspiracy to commit terrorism, according to news reports. He is linked with eight others to a  bomb plot that Hong Kong police uncovered last week.  The plot was instigated by a local group that had taken shape during the anti-government protests of 2019.

The alleged bomb plot targeted infrastructure and sites of interest and was a protest against recent developments in Hong Kong pertaining to the new National Security Legislation. 

Hong Kong chief Executive Carrie Lam said at a weekly news briefing recently that she hoped that members of the public would "openly condemn threats of violence." 

It is not yet clear what other charges will be brought against other members of the group, which include a member of a local university and a staff member of a local property management company. The group allegedly recruited secondary school students and enlisted the help of a construction worker to source bomb making materials. 

The group's alleged bomb making laboratory was also raided last week. Officials there found ingridients that could be used to make powerful explosives.