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Death toll in Yunnan knife attack rises to 2

THE death toll from a knife attack yesterday in southwest China's Yunnan province has risen to two after another victim died in hospital last night, local authorities said today.

A knife-wielding man, surnamed Yin, attacked five people near a coach station in the county seat of Fuyuan yesterday noon. He was seized by an auxiliary police officer and a taxi driver, according to a spokesman with the county's international communication office.

Yang Lihou, the taxi driver, and Jin Haoran, a pedestrian, died yesterday afternoon and yesterday night, respectively, after treatments failed, said the spokesman.

The other four injured people are receiving treatment in the People's Hospital of Fuyuan County, and two of them remain in critical conditions, he said.

Local police have detained Yin and are investigating the attack.




 

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