A knifeman has been shot by police after stabbing four people outside a hospital in Shanghai.
Officers were called to the attack in the city’s Huangpu district at 11.30am local time on Saturday.
Officers found a man holding a crowd hostage with a blade inside the hospital. They opened fire when he threatened to hurt them.
A statement said: ‘The police quickly arrived on the scene and discovered a man holding a group of people hostage with a knife on the hospital’s seventh floor.
‘When the suspect intended to injure the hostages and punish the police, the police decisively fired a shot to injure and subdue him.’
The four people who were stabbed do not have life threatening injuries and are being treated at hospital. The attacker’s motives remain unclear.
Chinese media showed video footage of armed police trying to break in to a locked room in the hospital.
Another video shared on social media shows more than a dozen members of the public fleeing from the hospital.
Mass crime in China is a rare occurrence.
Citizens are strictly prohibited from owning firearms but knife attacks are known to occur occasionally.
A 23-year-old man died last month in Ningbo after being violently stabbed in the street.
Nationwide, a string of knife attacks targeting kindergarten centres and schools have been carried out by people reportedly wishing to wreak havoc and revenge on society.
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