Video shows Hong Kong reporter attacked by alleged pro-Beijing, ex-political leader

Video from Hong Kong depicts what could have been a fatal attack on a journalist reporting from the Chinese administrative region, with a knife-wielding assailant appearing to narrowly miss the reporter but wound another man in the process. 

The journalist, a Hong Kong-based reporter for the Epoch Times, was attacked Friday night local time. The news service posted video of the incident, in which a man appears to approach the reporter with an outstretched knife before the reporter's camera is dropped and the scene is obscured. 

The newspaper subsequently tweeted that several bystanders helped stop the assailant; one of them was sent to the hospital with "severe wounds on his hand." The reporter escaped injury, while his alleged assailant was later arrested. 

The alleged assailant, the newspaper later reported, was "identified as Kwong Sing Yu, former community director of DAB, or Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, a pro-Beijing political party."