At least seven people were killed Sunday morning by a knife-wielding attacker in northeast China, according to state media.
Seven other people were also injured in the attack in the city of Kaiyuan, in Liaoning province, state broadcaster CCTV 已报告.
A single suspect surnamed Yang has been arrested and police are investigating the case, the Kaiyuan municipal public security bureau said in a 声明.
The police did not mention the motive of the attack, or details on the suspect or the casualties. CCTV 已报告 that a police officer who helped subdue the suspect was among the injured.
一个 视频 posted by the state-run Beijing News on Chinese social media showed two police officers — one of them wielding a broom — confronting the suspect and tackling him to the ground.
Knife attacks in public are not uncommon in China.
在六月, 37 children and two adults were 受伤的 by a knife attacker at an elementary school in the southwestern Guangxi region.
在十月 2018, a woman wielding a kitchen knife slashed 至少 14 children at a kindergarten in the central city of Chongqing.
Nine students were killed at a middle school in Shaanxi province in April 2018 by a 28-year-old man who was later sentenced to death.
在 2017, 11 students were injured after a man climbed over the wall of a kindergarten with a knife and began attacking them.
But perhaps the worst spate of stabbings occurred in 2010, which included a period of three consecutive days in which attackers targeted schools. China’s Ministry of Education responded to those events by ordering schools to strengthen security and bar strangers from entering campuses.
