Stabber gets 15 years for attacking 20-odd people
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Lijiang,
China
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
While there was much publicity - negative- about the tour guide turned stabber, who in a rage took a tibetan knife and stabbed 20 or so people in Lijiang's old town last April.
My friend said how she had some guests she was showing around, and one couple went off away from the tour group in the old town square, and they were stabbed by the guy, apparently enraged by being beaten up by local tour guides and arguing over kickbacks and commissions from shops.
My friend tells me how because it was April 1 and a Sunday, that when she rang the police, the hospital and the tour company, no one at first believed her, that many people had been stabbed in the old town. The police were tardy in repsonding. Doctors were away.
The sequel to events is that the guide - from the north of China and recently divorced - got 15 years in jail. Which i guess is better than a bullet to your head.
Two or three people were seriously injured, suffering head injuries.
