Rampage through Lijiang old town injures 20
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Lijiang,
China
Monday, April 2, 2007
Today the incident is the talk of the town. About 24 hours after the event there was the first - and only - newspaper report on the attack, which happened during a busy time of the day in a very busy pedestrian part of Lijiang. Thousands would have witnessed the knifings or the comotion following the incident.
Today one Naxi friend tells me a couple of things about the attack:
first, he attacked only girls and women
second, he is from outside Lijiang. Another province in a distance part of China.
My friend is scared. She is also worried people will read about the attack and think it is Lijiang or Naxi people.
I am not sure what they mean by 'rescue work' in the article. A foreigner was cut in the arm, according to another visitor who spoke to me yesterday.
Anyway, here's the story from China Daily, the main newspaper in English in China:
Tourist guide injures 20 in slashing rampageBy Jessie Tao (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-04-02 15:45
A tourist guide injured 20 people in a slashing rampage following a quarrel with another guide while conducting a sightseeing tour around the Sifang Street in the ancient City of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province Sunday, local government authorities confirmed Monday.
Xu Minchao, a 25-year-old national tourist guide with a travel agency in northeast China's Jilin Province, lost control of his emotion after a row with Peng, a local guide with a travel agency in the capital city of Kunming, and whisked a knife to cut 20 people, mostly tourists and guides, reported China News.
Xu was caught on the spot, and the injured people, 15 of whom are tourists from other parts of the country, were rushed to hospital for treatment. Two of them were heavily injured. Rescue work is under way, and further investigation is being carried out.
