An attack in a Chinese hospital in Yunnan province left at least 10 victims on Tuesday, May 7.
An attack in a hospital in the Chinese province of Yunnan left at least 10 dead on Tuesday, May 7, the state news agency Xinhua reported, without specifying for the moment the nature of the attack. 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.
The facts are “occurred at a local hospital” Tuesday and “more than 10 people were injured or killed”, indicated the New China news agency. The attack took place in northeastern Yunnan and authorities are carrying out investigations, according to the same Source.
A wave of stabbing attacks
“It happened around 11 a.m. it’s still a little confusing,” a resident told the media The Paper. 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 also killed and another injured in a stabbing attack, this time at a kindergarten in the southern province of Guangdong.
In August 2022, three people died and six others were injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Jiangxi.
