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6 people killed in ax attacks horror
By Xu Chi |
September 15, 2011, Thursday
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SIX people, including two children, were killed by a man wielding an ax on a street in Gongyi City in central China's Henan Province yesterday.
The victims, from three families, were a mother and her daughter, a grandmother and her granddaughter, and a couple. The two children, aged one and five, were being taken to a kindergarten at 8:40am when the man attacked, police said.
Four of the victims died at the scene from head wounds while the other two died in hospital.
Witnesses said the man seemed to choose his victims at random, striking them all on the head with his ax.
A bus ticket seller told Henan Business Daily that he took pictures of what he described as "slaughter" but deleted them all because they were "too bloody."
Pictures uploaded online by reporters showed bloodstains on the street, and all the stores closed behind a banner set up by the government which read: "Strike against crimes, secure public safety."
The suspect was detained by 20 policemen who rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area.
The suspect, Wang Hongbin, a 30-year-old farmer from the city's Dong'an Village, had been suffering from mental illness for many years, police said.
According to fellow villagers, Wang was regarded as a "mentally ill bully" who scared many other residents as he was often seen wandering around the streets and beating people at random.
They said this had been going on for years. The villagers said they had seen him "seizing children by their throats" several times and he also attacked women.
A villager surnamed Lin, who used to be a neighbor of Wang's, said Wang's father was a former mental patient, and the son began behaving abnormally after he was dumped by girls at university.
His condition became even worse after his bicycle was stolen.
Henan Business Daily reported that Wang not only beat people but also took pleasure in killing animals, including poultry raised by other villagers. He once killed a pig raised by his family and later burned the body, frightening many villagers, the newspaper said.
Although villagers had warned Wang's father many times that his son's erratic behavior would one day result in someone's death, the father said he could do nothing, adding that his son even beat him and his mother at home.
An official surnamed Gao with Gongyi police said the man had been diagnosed as a mental patient twice in Henan hospitals, with the latest diagnosis in July, but he said they didn't know why the man was not being treated in hospital.
It was not the first time that a man suspected of being mentally ill had killed or injured other people.
On March 23 last year, a 42-year-old man attacked 13 students with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping, Fujian Province, killing nine of them.
He was suspected of suffering some mental illness by his acquaintances.
On August 29, a worker suspected of suffering mental diseases cut eight toddlers on their faces and necks at a daycare center in Shanghai.
And on September 2, a man suffering a mental illness stabbed four students who were on their way home from elementary schools in Yugan County, Jiangxi Province, leaving them injured.
The victims, from three families, were a mother and her daughter, a grandmother and her granddaughter, and a couple. The two children, aged one and five, were being taken to a kindergarten at 8:40am when the man attacked, police said.
Four of the victims died at the scene from head wounds while the other two died in hospital.
Witnesses said the man seemed to choose his victims at random, striking them all on the head with his ax.
A bus ticket seller told Henan Business Daily that he took pictures of what he described as "slaughter" but deleted them all because they were "too bloody."
Pictures uploaded online by reporters showed bloodstains on the street, and all the stores closed behind a banner set up by the government which read: "Strike against crimes, secure public safety."
The suspect was detained by 20 policemen who rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area.
The suspect, Wang Hongbin, a 30-year-old farmer from the city's Dong'an Village, had been suffering from mental illness for many years, police said.
According to fellow villagers, Wang was regarded as a "mentally ill bully" who scared many other residents as he was often seen wandering around the streets and beating people at random.
They said this had been going on for years. The villagers said they had seen him "seizing children by their throats" several times and he also attacked women.
A villager surnamed Lin, who used to be a neighbor of Wang's, said Wang's father was a former mental patient, and the son began behaving abnormally after he was dumped by girls at university.
His condition became even worse after his bicycle was stolen.
Henan Business Daily reported that Wang not only beat people but also took pleasure in killing animals, including poultry raised by other villagers. He once killed a pig raised by his family and later burned the body, frightening many villagers, the newspaper said.
Although villagers had warned Wang's father many times that his son's erratic behavior would one day result in someone's death, the father said he could do nothing, adding that his son even beat him and his mother at home.
An official surnamed Gao with Gongyi police said the man had been diagnosed as a mental patient twice in Henan hospitals, with the latest diagnosis in July, but he said they didn't know why the man was not being treated in hospital.
It was not the first time that a man suspected of being mentally ill had killed or injured other people.
On March 23 last year, a 42-year-old man attacked 13 students with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping, Fujian Province, killing nine of them.
He was suspected of suffering some mental illness by his acquaintances.
On August 29, a worker suspected of suffering mental diseases cut eight toddlers on their faces and necks at a daycare center in Shanghai.
And on September 2, a man suffering a mental illness stabbed four students who were on their way home from elementary schools in Yugan County, Jiangxi Province, leaving them injured.
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