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Street attack kills 1, injures 5 in SW China

(Xinhua) Updated: 2012-04-27 20:35

KUNMING - One people was killed and another five injured in a street knife attack Friday in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said.

A man attacked six people using a knife near a coach station in the county seat of Fuyuan on Friday noon, the county's international communication office said in a statement.

All the six were rushed to the county people's hospital for emergency medical treatment, but one died as emergency treatment failed.

An auxiliary police officer and a taxi driver seized the killer and stopped his knife attack.

Local police have launched an investigation into the attack.

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