At around 5 pm today, a mentally deranged man from Yishui, Shandong province fatally stabbed two people outside Chaoyang Joy City shopping mall in Beijing. He is currently in custody.
Among the dead is a foreigner. UPDATE, 7/23: An American, the US Embassy has confirmed. No other details are currently known.
More information as it becomes available. In the meantime, disturbing pictures of the scene are beginning to appear on Sina Weibo, which you can check out below.
(H/T Derrick Sobodash)
UPDATE, 7/18, 2 am: Here’s how unarmed police took down the suspect:
UPDATE, 7/18, 2:48 am: We’re reminded of the previous knife attack in Beijing just this May, when an attacker from Heilongjiang also killed two people before being suppressed by police.
The previous time a foreigner was killed in a random act of street violence was in July 2012, when an American was fatally stabbed in Xicheng district.
Wow. Shockingly inept police.
Shockingly racist Chinese, got a thing about stabbing foreigners haven’t they?
lets not forget last July 2012 incident when attacker with knife held subway officer in subway station as hostage until police solved the situation appropriately (which didn’t happened this time and the animal still lives)
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/0719/487915.html
holy shit
What is sad is how the whole of China’s ultra-nationalism would rise to the point where, if this had been reversed and happened in Washington DC and had one of the victims been Chinese, the Chinese media would have it on every page of every news source, headline coverage, and multitudinous editorials about how Chinese are treated abroad.
Heck, they wouldn’t even have to be Chinese citizens… they would simply go by blood (wait… that is what determines Chinese citizenship, so I guess it’s the same in their eyes).
Well now, you certainly don’t have to be Han to be a Chinese citizen anyway.