One person has died in an apparent shooting at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Wuhan in a rare case of gun violence.
A police statement said yesterday that two other people were injured on Sunday night in what it called a case of “deliberate injury” resulting from a dispute.
Social media posts described what happened as a shooting and shared images of a person slumped in a chair and another person lying on the ground.
The statement from the Qiaokou District police branch in Wuhan didn’t say what weapon had been used.
China has strict gun control laws, and reports of gun violence are extremely rare.
Knife attacks appear to be more common, as well as driving a vehicle into a crowd.
The attack on Sunday occurred in an area with a cluster of restaurants with outdoor seating serving barbecued meat on skewers.
A video of the aftermath, which has been taken down from social media, shows a crowd of people milling around the well-lit, nighttime scene, before emergency medical workers arrive and bring out a stretcher to take the victims away. — AP
