Two Dead, 21 Injured in China Hospital Attack

Two people were reportedly killed and twenty-one injured after a man went on a stabbing spree at a hospital in southwest China on Tuesday, local officials said.

“A knife attack occurred at the Chengnan Hospital in Zhenxiong County, which resulted in two deaths and 21 injuries,” a statement on the county’s official WeChat account said.

The suspect; a man from a nearby village is under investigation, while the wounded victims were being treated in hospital, authorities said.

Mass violent crime is rare in China, which strictly prohibits citizens from owning firearms, but there has been a spate of stabbings in recent years.

Last August in Yunnan, two people died and seven others were wounded after a man with a history of mental illness attacked people with a knife.

The month before, six people were killed and one wounded in a kindergarten stabbing in southern China’s Guangdong province.

AFP