Chinese knife kills two in hospital attack

A man in a hospital, dressed in dark clothing, holds a knife in each hand

At least two people were killed and 21 others injured in a knife attack at a hospital in Yunnan, southwest China.

The attack took place at a local hospital in Zhenxiong County at around 11.37am when the as-yet-unnamed male suspect went berserk.

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According to the state news site The Paper, he was arrested, but no motive was given for the attacks.

“According to investigators, the suspect is a male villager. from Poji Town, Zhenxiong County,” the Zhenxiong County Police Department said in a statement posted on its official WeChat account.

Witnesses described chaotic scenes during the morning attack.

Images published by The Paper newspaper show the man, dressed in dark clothing, holding a knife in each hand.

One witness told Chinese publication Red Star News that he narrowly escaped the attack and that among the attackers were one or more doctors. wounded.

Footage recorded by a witness shows people bleeding and lying on the ground, and one elderly man trying to help another.

No motive established

No details about the identity of the victims were available reported. Police said they are receiving treatment and that the investigation is ongoing.

Although guns are illegal in China, the country has seen a series of mass stabbings in recent years.

In 2014, China was horrified by another mass stabbing by a group of eight knife-wielding attackers at a train station in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, killed 31 people and injured 141.

The Chinese government blamed the attack on Islamic extremists from the western region of Xinjiang.

Knife attacks often occurred in children's homes gardens Last July, a knife-wielding man killed six people and injured another at a kindergarten in the southeastern province of Guangdong.

A man injured 15 people, six seriously, in a knife attack in Shanghai. in hospital in 2022, was sentenced to death last year.

Zhenxiong County, located in northeastern Yunnan, borders Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and is 220 miles northeast of Kunming. Until 2020, he was considered “poor.”