The Henan Business Daily reported on Thursday that the man was taken to a police station by an undercover officer after getting off a bus with his friend. The sharp-eyed policeman noticed the man...
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- May 25, 2013
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The mentally ill man who punched and slashed 23 people - mostly children - in a Henan province primary school on Friday rampaged through the premises for more than half an hour before he was...
A knife-wielding man was "out of control and threatening to harm himself and others" when a police officer opened fire on him in the early hours of yesterday, hitting him in the thigh, according...
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R.J. Anderson
Published by Orchard Books
ISBN 978 1 40830 312 2
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