CNN: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least two people were killed and another 21 injured in a knife attack in a hospital in China\u2019s southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, local authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attack, described by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua as a \u201cviolent incident\u201d took place at a local hospital in Zhenxiong county, the news agency reported, adding that authorities were gathering more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A separate statement from the county\u2019s public security bureau said it had identified a male suspect from a town in the county. An investigation was on-going into the attack, which took place just before midday at Chengnan Hospital, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMultiple videos from the scene also show a suspect being apprehended by police in a [nearby] wellness center,\u201d Guizhou Television reported earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials have not yet confirmed whether the suspect arrested is the attacker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An eye-witness interviewed by Chinese state media outlet, The Paper, said the situation remained chaotic as authorities worked to assess the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China, where private gun ownership is illegal is for most civilians, has faced a spate of mass stabbings in public places in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, six people were killed and one injured in an early morning knife attack<\/a> outside a kindergarten in southern China\u2019s Guangdong. A 2020 knife attack at an elementary school injured 37 children<\/a> and two adults in the southern Guangxi region, while a 2022 stabbing<\/a>, also at a kindergarten, killed three and injuring six in eastern Jiangxi province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yunnan was also the location of a 2014 knife attack at a train station in the provincial capital of Kunming, where multiple assailants killed 33 people and wounded 133. Authorities blamed terrorists from its Northwestern region of Xinjiang for that attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Violence at hospitals is also not unheard of in China, where health professionals have a history <\/a>of facing assault from patients or their families<\/a>, often over concerns about high costs <\/a>and standard of treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CNN: At least two people were killed and another 21 injured in a knife attack in a hospital in China\u2019s southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, local authorities said. The attack, described by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua as a \u201cviolent incident\u201d took place at a local hospital in Zhenxiong county, the news agency reported, adding that authorities were gathering more information. A separate statement from the county\u2019s public security bureau said it had identified a male suspect from a town in the county. An investigation was on-going into the attack, which took place just before midday at Chengnan Hospital,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39075,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions\/39075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}