A retired female worker set fire to a bottle of petrol at a water plant in central China on Monday, killing three staff and injuring four others in an apparent revenge attack, state media said.
Three company managers suffered fatal burns in the attack, which happened during a staff meeting at the plant in Shaoyang city, Hunan province, the official China News Service said.
The woman, identified as Shi Yanfei, leapt from the meeting room’s sixth floor window after the attack but survived, it said.
“Executives at the company were having a meeting, when an employee carrying a petrol bottle rushed into the room,” a Hunan official said in a microblog posting on Sina Weibo.
“Three managerial staff died on the spot due to burns.”
Shi, a retired company worker, was disgruntled over a job assignment given to one of her children at the water company, said Xinhua.