As many as five people, including children and medical staff, were injured by a knife-wielding attacker at a renowned Shanghai hospital on Saturday before the man was subdued by armed police, according to local police and witnesses.
Huangpu district police said in a statement that they received a call about the attack at around 11:30 a.m. and headed to the scene in Ruijin Hospital’s outpatient department.
Videos on social media showed chaos as visitors clambered under turnstiles to get out of the hospital while doctors were seen running out with their patients, some in wheelchairs and one on a mobile bed.
"It's very shocking," said a Shanghai resident who had arrived for a check-up just after the hospital was sealed off, declining to give her name. "This is very despairing. What has happened to this society?"