Woman killed, 12 injured in Beijing mall knife attack
Reuters Staff
Police patrol outside the Joy City Mall in the Xidan district after a knife attack, in Beijing, China February 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee
BEIJING (Reuters) - A woman was killed and 12 other people injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in a busy shopping district in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday.
Police patrol outside the Joy City Mall in the Xidan district after a knife attack, in Beijing, China February 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Beijing police said in a short statement they had detained a man over the early afternoon attack at the Joy City Mall in the Xidan district.
Three men and 10 women were sent to hospital after the attack and one woman died of her injuries, police said. The others were all expected to recover.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-crime/woman-killed-12-injured-in-beijing-mall-knife-attack-idUSKBN1FV08E
As the article reads in the next paragraph, this attacker is not from the troubled Muslim province of Xinjiang in the West of China.
