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Victoria Bela

Police in Guangzhou said on Monday they had apprehended a man in the southern Chinese city’s university town district after receiving reports that he was wielding a knife and injuring pedestrians.
Emergency services started receiving calls around 5.20pm local time about multiple stabbings in front of a hotpot restaurant in the Xiaoguwei Island area of Panyu district, according to an alert sent out by the district branch of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The bureau said in a social media post that police promptly arrived and the injured individuals were sent to hospital, with none in life-threatening condition after treatment.
A 35-year-old male suspect surnamed Li was apprehended, and the bureau said the case was under further investigation.


The island is home to a university park complex that includes several major universities.
Earlier on Monday, online posts circulated about a knife attack at Gogo Xintiandi mall in Panyu’s Guangzhou University Town complex, with images circulating of multiple injured individuals along with an image of the presumed assailant wearing a face mask.
Some online posts said that there was more than one attacker, but that information could not be immediately verified.
Apparent CCTV footage posted on social media on Monday showed a man clad in black stabbing a woman in the face in a split second as he passed by her inside a shopping centre.
Other videos showed the same woman later sitting on the ground being comforted by passers-by.

Another series of graphic videos appeared to show the aftermath of another attack on an older woman, seen sitting outdoors covered in blood with a knife in her face, screaming for help.
The knife-wielding suspect appeared to target the victim’s face and eyes.
Footage was also posted of a police unit rushing into a shopping centre, as well as what appeared to be the officers apprehending a suspect inside the centre.
Some videos posted of the event were removed from Chinese social media platforms, but others posted to Western platforms remain online. .

The university town, which is officially known as Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, is a major education hub and home to campuses of major institutions like Sun Yat-sen University and South China Normal University.
Xiaoguwei Island also contains university dormitories, a science museum and cultural tourism sites.
In recent years, China has seen high-profile knife attacks, including one in October 2024 at a supermarket in Shanghai’s Songjiang district that left three people dead and 15 injured.
Other public incidents have also raised safety concerns, including a deliberate car-ramming incident in November 2024 outside the Zhuhai Sports Centre, also in Guangdong province, which resulted in 35 dead and dozens wounded.


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Police apprehend suspect who appeared to target faces as online photos show bloodied victims sitting on ground