Attackers armed with knives killed at least 3 people in central China Friday, an official said, ruling out a terrorist incident two weeks after a mass stabbing left 29 people dead and stunned the nation.
“Three people died,” an official in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) by phone. “I can assure you it’s not a terror attack. It happened in a market due to some dispute.”
The official news agency Xinhua reported that “a group of knife-wielding assailants attacked civilians” and left “three bodies lying on the ground”.
Police and ambulances had arrived and the area had been cordoned off, it added.
A Hunan radio station described one attacker, who ran a bakery, as having a dispute and then stabbing to death a woman in her 80s who had just walked out onto the street.
Three people had been killed and one injured, it said on its account of Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, citing police, Rappler informs.
