Police: Man with knife kills 1, injures 12 at Beijing mall

BEIJING — A 35-year-old man with a personal grievance attacked 13 people with a knife in a busy shopping mall in Beijing on Sunday, killing one, police said.

A woman died from her injuries after being sent to a hospital, the city’s Public Security Bureau said in a brief statement on its official microblog page. The 12 other victims in the attack suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, it said.

Police provided only the alleged assailant’s surname, Zhu, and said he confessed to the authorities that he carried out the attack at Joy City, a mall in Beijing’s Xidan district, to “vent his personal discontent.”

Video clips posted on Chinese social media sites showed mall patrons fleeing from what was described as a restaurant on the sixth story. One clip showed a man staggering out, apparently hurt from the attack, dripping blood on the floor as a security guard rushed to help him. Other clips showed people being rushed away on gurneys and a large number of uniformed police in the mall.