Beijing police shoot suspect after deadly city centre knife attack
Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has heightened after series of incidents, including mass stabbing at a Kunming train station in March last year when 31 died
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 08 September, 2015, 5:32pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 08 September, 2015, 5:53pm
Reuters in Beijing
The Chinese woman who was stabbed to death in Beijing in an earlier attack in August. File photo: SCMP Pictures
Chinese police shot and wounded a man in central Beijing on Tuesday when he resisted arrest after killing one person and injuring several others with a kitchen knife, say the city’s police.
The suspect was a 29-year-old man, identified only by his surname, Song, from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, they said on their official microblog.
The motive for the knife attack on a street in Beijing’s Chaoyang district was under investigation, they added.
Police said the suspect and the victims were all taken to hospital.
The suspect’s injury was not critical, they added without giving further details about the victims.
Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has been heightened by a series of incidents, including a mass stabbing at a train station in March last year in the southwestern city of Kunming that left 31 dead.
In August a lone attacker stabbed a French man and a Chinese woman in a popular Beijing shopping complex, killing the woman.
Violent crime is rare in China, compared with many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many on school children.
