An investigation is under way.
BEIJING - Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai on Sept 30, on the eve of China’s week-long National Day holiday, the latest in a series of stabbing incidents in major Chinese cities in 2024.
The victims were immediately rushed to hospital for treatment, but three died. The other 15 did not sustain life-threatening wounds. The assailant, a 37-year-old man surnamed Lin, was detained by the police who received a report of the incident at 9.47pm on Sept 30.The knife attack came one day before China’s National Day “Golden Week”, when holiday travel was expected to surge.
Public stabbing incidents have risen over the years in China, with authorities often putting the blame on mental illness. Children at schools are a common target.metres from his school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.on two Japanese nationals in Suzhou, a major city in eastern China have stoked security concerns among members of the Japanese community in China.
And in May, a man killed eight people and wounded one more with a knife in the city of Xiaogan in central Hubei province.went on a stabbing spreeThe man, whom authorities said was “resentful of society” after an investment fell through, was sentenced to death a year later. AFP, REUTERS
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