A total of 6,000 residents needed to be removed from 18 buildings in the city's Quarry Bay neighborhood, police said on Friday after the discovery, determining that the bomb appeared to be 'fully functional.'

Police receive report at around noon on Friday that a 1.3-metre-long suspected bomb had been found at a construction site on Pan Hoi Street.

Police say specialists will begin disposing of bomb, which was discovered at a site on Pan Hoi Street, at 2am on Saturday.