A 37-year-old man surnamed Lin went on a rampage with a knife at a Walmart supermarket in Shanghai on Monday night, killing three people and injuring 15 others.
Chinese police have provided few details about the suspects or their motives, including whether the attack was intentionally timed to coincide with China's National Day holiday. On October 1, the Chinese Communist Party celebrates the establishment of Communist China by mass murderer Mao Zedong.
Police said the suspect traveled to Shanghai from an undisclosed hometown “to vent his anger over personal financial issues.” He did not say whether the dispute was related to Walmart.
A man named Lin made a knife and started. stab A customer walked into Walmart on Monday night around 9:45 p.m. He was arrested immediately after the attack.
Lin successfully stabbed 18 people, three of whom died in hospital from their injuries. The remaining 15 people are said to have non-life-threatening injuries and are recovering.
Witness: “There was blood everywhere'' said BBC on Tuesday. “We didn't know what was going on, but all of a sudden we saw people panicking and running. None of us had ever experienced anything like this and we had no idea what was going on. I wasn't ready for it.''
China has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent months, including one against a 10-year-old Japanese student. stabbed to death Near a school in Shenzhen in September. The attack sparked a wave of anger on social media in China and Japan.
Perhaps mindful of the social media firestorm caused by the previous attack, or perhaps worried that the Chinese Communist Party would be embarrassed by its inability to protect its citizens from knife attacks, Chinese censors on Monday night He took excessive actions such as deleting social media posts related to the incident.
Video of the attack and its bloody aftermath recorded by smartphones and surveillance cameras. spread rapidly in China before the government started dragging them down. Some of these videos showed at least one child among the bloody victims.
Tuesday is formal beginning China's week-long National Day holiday commemorates the Chinese Communist Party's 75 years of dictatorship.
