Man goes on stabbing rampage at security bureau

By Yang Lifei and Cai Wenjun  |   2008-7-1  |     ONLINE EDITION

A MAN armed with a knife broke into Zhabei District Public Security Bureau at 9am today and stabbed nine police officers and one security guard, according to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.

The suspect was apprehended at the scene, but it remained unclear who he was and why he attacked the officers.

TV news reported that one or two officers received severe injuries. A witness said the wounded officers were covered in blood when taken to hospital.

``Some of them had stabs in the chest. Blood was all over some of their faces,'' the man surnamed Yi told the TV station.

After the violence, police lines were set up around the district's Public Security Bureau.

The wounded officers were rushed to five hospitals.

Changzheng Hospital received four victims, all of whom are being treated in the intensive care unit.

Shanghai No. 10 People's Hospital said one officer was admitted at 10am. He was having an operation on his liver. He was also stabbed in the face, the hospital told Shanghai Daily.

The other three hospitals, Beizhan Hospital, Shanghai No. 1 People's Hospital and Zhabei District Central Hospital refused to talk to Shanghai Daily.