Crime in China: knife-wielding attacker kills seven, injures seven others in random attack
- Man who appeared to be in his 50s ‘just stabbed strangers with a knife’, witness says
- Suspect detained after police Swat team responds to calls from public on Sunday morning
At least seven people were killed and seven others injured on Sunday when a knife-wielding man went on the rampage in a small city in northeast China.
The suspect, identified only by his surname Yang, was detained by police in Kaiyuan, Liaoning province, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Police said in a statement they responded to calls from the public that a man was attacking people at random in the Suntai Road area of the city. The incident happened at 8.14am, they said.
One police officer was injured while trying to apprehend the suspect, the statement said, though it did not provide any details of the other people hurt or killed.
A woman, surnamed Liu, who runs a music studio on Suntai Road said in a telephone interview that most of the victims appeared to be middle-aged or elderly women.
“The man appeared to be in his 50s. He just stabbed strangers with a knife. It was really horrible,” she said, adding that the attack began outside a school.