Police question two as Chinese man is buried

TWO people are still being questioned by the RUC about the death of a Chinese businessman, Mr Simon Tang, who was buried in Co Antrim yesterday.

Mr Tang (28) died on Tuesday, two days after he was attacked by a gang of masked men wielding baseball bats, as he left his takeaway restaurant in Carrickfergus. Robbery was the apparent motive and £200 is believed to have been taken.

There have been 30 attacks on the Chinese community in recent months, according to Mr Tang's brother in law, Mr Stanley Lee. Speaking after the service in a Carrickfergus funeral home, Mr Lee said that nobody had been brought to justice for those attacks. "Now my brother in law is dead."

At the funeral, a distraught Mrs Betty Tang, holding her two month old son, was comforted by family and friends. Mr Lee said: "I would ask the men - I can't call them men - who did this deed, to tell that boy when he grows up where his father is."

Among the attendance was local MP Mr Roy Beggs, who said the Chinese community had made a great contribution to Northern Ireland. "Most people are appalled", he said, appealing for anybody with information to come forward.