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| A knife-wielding man is apprehended by police at the Population and Family Planning Bureau of Dongxing City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 23, 2013. The suspect broke into the Population and Family Planning Bureau of Dongxing City Tuesday morning, killing 2 people and injuring 4. The suspect was captured on the spot. The injured have been taken to hospital. (Xinhua) |
NANNING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A knife-wielding man killed two government staff and injured another four on Tuesday morning in the city of Dongxing in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local government said.
At about 8 a.m., a man surnamed He is thought to have broken into the building of the Dongxing City Family Planing Bureau, where he attacked his victims, said the Dongxing municipal government.
The four injured people have been rushed to hospital and are in non-life-threatening conditions. The suspect has been put under police custody.
Initial investigations show that, on Monday afternoon, the bureau staff refused to register He's fourth child with a permanent residency, or the "hukou," as he had not paid the "social compensation fee" for the child born outside the county's family planning policy.
A villager in the town of Malu, the suspect has four children, one boy and three girls after he got married in 2006.
He also has a history of mental illness and was certified disabled in June 2010.
Further investigation into the incident is under way.
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