Three dead and 15 injured in Shanghai Walmart stabbing after man 'went on rampage'

Police in Shanghai, China, said they arrested a 37-year-old man surnamed Lin at the scene, adding he had come to the city to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute"

Three people have died and 15 others are injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage inside a Walmart supermarket.

A 37-year-old man surnamed Lin was arrested at the scene in Shanghai, China. Police said he can come to the city to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute".

The horror last night took place at a shopping mall in Songjiang, a densely populated district in the city's south-west, which is also home to several universities. Three people were rushed to hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries, while the conditions of the other victims are thought not to be life-threatening.

"There was blood everywhere," a witness surnamed Shi told BBC News. Mr Shi, who runs a jewellery store at the ground floor of the Ludu International Commercial Plaza, said dozens of firefighters and special weapons and tactics (SWAT) officers entered the mall, and asked people to evacuate.

He continued: "I didn’t know what was happening, but suddenly, I saw people running in a panic... No one had ever experienced something like this, and we weren’t mentally prepared for it... This kind of random incident is terrifying and unsettling." He added he felt he had "narrowly escaped" death.

The supermarket is open for business on Tuesday but with additional security, it is understood. Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent months.

But discussions about the incident now appear to have been censored on Chinese social media. Last month, a 10-year-old Japanese pupil died a day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China.

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