Four injured in knife attack at Shanghai hospital
- Incident took place on Saturday morning at Shanghai’s renowned Ruijin Hospital
- The wounded are not in life-threatening condition, and motive of the attacker remains unclear
Four people were wounded when a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing spree at a major Shanghai hospital on Saturday morning before being shot and subdued by police.
Huangpu district police received emergency reports at 11.30am on Saturday of a stabbing at the renowned Ruijin Hospital.
“Police quickly arrived on the scene and discovered a man holding a group of people hostage with a knife on the hospital’s seventh floor,” the force said in a statement on social media.
“When the suspect intended to injure the hostages and attack the police, officers decisively fired a shot to injure and subdue him.”
Four members of the public were being treated for wounds and were “not in a life-threatening condition”, the statement added.
The attacker’s motive remains unclear as of now.