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Fujian knife attack death toll hits 3

29 May 2014 00:22 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The death toll from Tuesday's knife attack in southeast China's Fujian Province rose to three when one injured person died in hospital on Wednesday, local police authorities said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A man wielding a fruit knife with a 20-cm-long blade stabbed to death two people, including one off-duty police officer, at about 10 p.m. on Tuesday near a supermarket in downtown Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, according to the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau.

A third person was also injured in the stabbing spree. The person was declared dead after medical treatment failed at a local hospital on Wednesday morning.

The 26-year-old suspect, surnamed Chen, was captured by half a dozen passersby at the scene.

Chen resigned from a tech firm in the city of Xiamen on Monday and boarded a train to Fuzhou on Tuesday. After failing a train ticket for a return on Tuesday to his hometown of Nanping, Chen went to downtown Fuzhou to seek shelter from one of his former classmates, the police authorities said in a statement.

During a police interrogation, he said he felt he was being followed by someone and so bought two fruit knives, one with a 20-cm-long blade and another measuring 10 cm, from a supermarket and then stabbed passersby.