Posted on 10/01/2024 5:41:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The incident took place at a shopping mall in Songjiang, a densely populated district in the city's south-west, which is also home to several universities.
Police said the three people who died succumbed to their injuries at hospital. The others "did not sustain life-threatening wounds" and are not believed to be in danger.
"There was blood everywhere," an eyewitnes[sic] surnamed Shi told BBC News.
Mr Shi, who runs a jewellery store at the ground floor of the Ludu International Commercial Plaza, said dozens of firefighters and special weapons and tactics (SWAT) officers entered the mall, and asked people to evacuate.
Discussions about the incident now appear to have been censored on Chinese social media.
The supermarket was open for business on Tuesday but with additional security.
Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent months.
Last month, a 10-year-old Japanese student died a day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China.
In June this year, four US college instructors were stabbed in a public park in the northeast city of Jilin. In May, a man stabbed dead two people and wounded 21 others at a hospital in the southern province of Yunnan.
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I know China gets pummeled on FR, but a tour of this Chinese Walmart made my local Walmart look pretty subpar.
https://youtu.be/zz—vmMvR2o?si=lcjnRB479WxG3dhi
Didn’t know they had Walmart in China.
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