Knife-wielding attackers wounded nine at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou Friday, before local police shot dead one suspect and arrested another.
The attack took place at 8.18 am local time during the morning rush hour, when the assailants attacked people in front of the station, the city’s public security bureau said on its official Weibo microblog account.
The police said they were still investigating the case.
“They tried to hack me and I fended him off with my bag. Then he turned on my friend, but did not succeed in his attack,” a 50-year-old man told the South China Morning Post.
Another witness described seeing three people lying on the ground.
All of the injured were taken to hospital for treatment, Xinhua, China’s official news agency reported.
Police have not revealed any details about the suspects.
The city’s railway station saw a similar attack less than a year ago, when men with knives injured six people in May.
A mass stabbing in Kunming in Yunnan province shook China in March last year when knife-wielding attackers stormed a railway station, killing 31 and wounding 141.
That attack was blamed on Uyghur separatists from Xinjiang. The four suspects convicted in that case had names that suggested that they were also Uyghur, a mainly Muslim ethnic group.