A woman stabbed nine passengers in their sleep on a train early yesterday morning in Heilongjiang, according to the province's internet portal, Northeast Net.
At about 2am on a train travelling east from Harbin , a man who was fast asleep suddenly felt a sharp pain in his leg. The next thing he saw was the back of a short-haired and slightly plump woman in her 40s.
She was moving on to the next berth, with a knife in her hand.
Another passenger recalled the chaos travellers found themselves in.
He said that his 70-year-old sister, another injured passenger, initially thought it was something that had dropped from the upper berth that had caused her the pain, and she asked him to check.
Relying on the weak light from his mobile phone, he was shocked to find a 3cm bleeding wound in his sister's arm, while he heard a fight breaking out elsewhere in the carriage.
As more passengers woke up in pain, and lights were switched on, some tried to block the woman and take the knife away from her.