Seven people have been stabbed to death by a knife-wielding man in northeast China’s Liaoning province. Another seven people were reported wounded in the mass stabbing, which took place in Kaiyuan, a small city in Liaoning. The attacker injured a police officer while being detained.
The man, identified only by his surname, Yang, went on a rampage in Kaiyuan, a small city in Liaoning on Saturday morning, state media reported. The suspect is said to have started attacking people at random outside a sauna. Local police were soon alerted and arrived at the scene. The suspect is now in police custody, but no motive has yet been established.
China has seen a number of deadly knife attacks in recent years. In June this year, a school security guard used a knife to wound at least 39 people at a kindergarten in the southern region of Guangxi. The culprit was captured and sentenced to death. Two years earlier, a knife-wielding man killed one person and injured 12 others at a shopping mall in Beijing. At least 14 children were injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Chongqing, south-west China in 2018.
