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Police probes syringe attack on pedestrian

POLICE in Tianjin, a north China municipality, have started a probe after a woman said she was pricked by a syringe that probably contained anesthetics early on Sunday and suspected it was an attack.

The 22-year-old woman surnamed Dou said she was strolling in the street at about 4:30am on Sunday morning to relieve her frustration when she felt a sting in her left arm, today's Beijing Times reported.

She saw two men in a taxi staring at her and she was scared. She picked up the syringe from the ground and ran to the other side of the road. But the taxi chased her along until she ran to a shopping mall with three or four workers standing there.

She called the police but gave them a wrong address, the paper said.

After catching some sleep at home, Dou went to a police station near her home and the officers accompanied her to do a blood test in the Tianjin Medical University Hospital.

The woman suspected it was anesthetic in the syringe that caused her arm to feel numb. The hospital told her to stay at home and wait for the result, the paper said.



 

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