Shanghai (TDI): Mass stabbing inside a Walmart supermarket in Shanghai left three people killed and 15 others on Monday night, BBC reported.
Chinese police arrested a 37-year-old man surnamed Lin at the scene of the attack. According to BBC the man had come to Shanghai to vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute.
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The incident took place at a shopping mall located in densly populated area of Songjiang district, home to several universities.
It is not clear as what his economic issues and what motivated him to carry out mass stabbing if he had personal economic dispute? However, officials told local media that further investigations is going on.
All the victims of the attack were rushed to hospital where three people succumbed into their injuries while 15 other are out of danger, local police said.
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The incidents and resulting comments became trend on social media soon after it took place, however, the debate now appear to have been censored on Chinese social media.
The supermarkets located in located in the nearby areas open for businesses are visible with additional security measures on Tuesday.
Firearms are not allowed in the country, yet, the country is witnessing a recent rise in incidents of knife attacks.
A month ago a minor Japanese student was killed in knife attack near his school in southern China.
Similarly, in June, in such an incident four US college instructors were killed in the northeast city of Jilin in a public place.
In May, a man killed two people and wounded two dozen of other in the southern province of Yunnan and the incident ,surprisingly, took place at a hospital.
