Three nurses were injured, one severely, in a knife attack in a Changsha hospital on Monday morning, China’s second largest state-owned news agency reported.
Photos posted online showed three women dressed in white robes covered in blood lying on hospital beds.
The news agency’s website cited Wu Yuhua, deputy party chief of the hospital, as saying that one of the injured nurses was pregnant, while the other two had recently graduated from school. Wu said they were all in a stable condition after receiving emergency treatment.
The suspect had undergone surgery at the hospital four months ago, according to Wu. And he had been talking with his surgeon shortly before he attacked the three nurses, the report said quoting Wu.
Changsha police told the news agency that the suspect was still at large, but neither the hospital nor Changsha police could suggest what had motivated the attack.