Free sports drinks with suspicious pinhole marks leave 14 Hong Kong students ill

South China Morning Post - Sep 22, 2026

At least 14 students have been sent to hospital after drinking free beverages that were found with suspicious pinhole marks near a sports ground in Hong Kong, prompting a police investigation. Students from Maryknoll Secondary School in Kwun Tong reportedly posted messages on social media claiming that free bottles of a sports drink had been handed out during lunch on Wing Ting Road, a short distance from the Hammer Hill Road Sports Ground, where the school was holding an athletics meet on...

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