Photo opportunity: Chinese hospital visitors react to patient holding nurse hostage at knifepoint by taking pictures
A man being treated at a hospital in eastern China held a woman nurse hostage at knifepoint on Thursday before she was rescued unharmed by police, mainland media reports.
A number of other people in the ward at the hospital in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province, took out their mobile phones to take photographs and videos, the China News Service reported.
The patient was having an intravenous drip in a ward when he suddenly got up from his chair and grabbed the nurse and then held a fruit knife against her neck.
Witnesses said the man, in his 40s, appeared to have been be upset as a result of some family disputes, the report said.
“He kept yelling ‘I don’t want to live anymore, someone is plotting against me!’,” one patient was quoted as saying in the report.