SHENZEN: A man has been arrested at the Lo Wu border checkpoint on suspicion of smuggling firearm parts from Hong Kong to the mainland.
Shenzhen police were alerted after a cleaner found a roll of copper wire containing gun parts next to a fence at a checkpoint exit, Guangdong provincial police said on their website.
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Police later assembled four pistols from the parts.
Police soon identified a suspect and arrested him at the border crossing last week. He was carrying two gun barrels and two clips of ammunition at the time of his arrest, police said.
A haul of other weapons was later recovered by the authorities.
The suspect claimed that a man from Hong Kong had asked him to bring the firearm parts to Shenzhen where they would be sent on to other places on the mainland.
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The suspect said he was paid 100 yuan (HK$120) for each part he sneaked across the border and had carried out seven smuggling trips before he was caught, police reported.
The case is still under investigation.
