According to state-run Xinhua news agency, a knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai on Monday left three people dead and fifteen injured, continuing a string of stabbing incidents that have occurred throughout China this year.
Xinhua reported on Tuesday that despite immediate hospitalization, three of the victims died.
After receiving a report of the incident at 9:47 p.m. local time (1447 GMT), the police detained the attacker, a 37-year-old man going by the surname Lin, according to Xinhua.
There is currently an investigation going on.
In China, the number of public stabbing incidents has increased over time, and authorities have frequently attributed the increase to mental illness. Schools are frequently the target of attacks.
An attacker fatally stabbed a 10-year-old Japanese student in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in September, just meters from his school.
Members of the Japanese community in China are increasingly concerned about their safety in light of this incident and a knife attack on two Japanese nationals that occurred in June in Suzhou, a significant city in eastern China.
In Shanghai, stabbing incidents are uncommon but not unheard of.
At a major hospital in the Chinese financial hub in 2022, a man went on a stabbing spree, leaving 15 people injured.
The authorities handed the man the death penalty a year later. He was “resentful of society” after an investment went bad, according to the authorities.
