BEIJING, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have arrested a knife-wielding man who injured people outside a restaurant, the government said late Monday.
Here are the details:
• Guangzhou police said in a statement that late afternoon Monday, they received a call from the public reporting that a man was wielding a knife and injuring people at the entrance of a hotpot restaurant in the city’s Panyu district.
• Police officers quickly arrived at the scene to handle the situation, with the victims sent to hospital, though there were no life-threatening injuries.
• Police have arrested a 35-year-old man with the family name Li.
• China has seen a series of knife attacks in recent years, including in 2024 when a former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and injuring 17.
(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Stephen Coates)
