BEIJING – A knife attack at a hospital in southwest China on Tuesday killed two people and injured 21 others, authorities said.
No motive was given for the attack at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Yunnan province. The suspect is a man from a village in the same county, a statement from Zhenxiong police said. The injured were being treated, he said.
A witness told Red Star News, an online media outlet, that he narrowly escaped the attack and that a doctor or doctors were among those injured. Bystander video showed people bleeding and lying on the ground, and an elderly person trying to help another, Red Star’s social media post said.
Earlier media reports said 23 people were injured, but the police statement said the total was 21. A video posted online by Guizhou provincial television showed a man being taken away by police.
Zhenxiong County is 360 kilometers (220 mi) northeast of Yunnan Province’s capital, Kunming, and close to the border with Sichuan Province.
Knife attacks have happened before in China, often in kindergartens. A man with a knife killed six people and injured another last July at a kindergarten in the southeastern province of Guangdong.
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