A stabbing attack left two people dead and 21 injured Tuesday at a hospital in southwest China, local police said.
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On Tuesday, “at 11:37 a.m. (3:37 GMT), a stabbing attack occurred at Chengnan Hospital in Zhenxiong County” in Yunnan province, leaving two people dead and 21 injured, police wrote. local in a press release published on the social network WeChat.
A male suspect is under investigation, police said.
Footage published by state news site The Paper showed a man pointing a knife at another individual wielding a stick in a hospital lobby, as well as police officers arriving at the scene.
Mass crimes are rare in China, a country that prohibits its citizens from owning firearms, but a wave of stabbing attacks has been seen in recent years.
In August in Yunnan, two people died and seven others were injured in a knife attack carried out by a man with a history of mental illness.
The previous month, six people were killed and another injured in a stabbing attack, this time at a kindergarten in the southern province of Guangdong.
In August 2022, three people lost their lives and six others were injured during a knife attack at a kindergarten in Jiangxi (southeast).
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