Man who killed Beijing doctor sentenced to death


Bouquets laid at the emergency ward of Civil Aviation General Hospital in Beijing following the death of Yang Wen, the doctor who was stabbed to death by Sun Wenbin. - China Daily/ANN

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Sun Wenbin, who fatally stabbed a doctor at a hospital in Beijing last month was sentenced to death by the Beijing No 3 Intermediate People's Court on Thursday (Jan 16).

Yang Wen was working in the emergency department at Civil Aviation General Hospital in Chaoyang district on Dec 24 when Sun stabbed her in the neck with a knife. Seriously injured, the doctor died early the following day.

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