Man arrested over stabbing of young woman at bus stop in central China
- Surveillance footage of incident shows man in white T-shirt attacking victim as she waits alone for transport in Changsha, Hunan around 1am on Tuesday
- Police allege suspect was carrying a fruit knife believed to have been used in the attack
A man has been arrested over the stabbing of a young woman with a fruit knife – leaving her in serious condition – as she waited alone for a bus in central China in the early hours of Tuesday, local police said on Friday.
Surveillance camera footage of the incident around 1am shows a man in a white T-shirt approaching a woman from behind a bus stop in the city of Changsha, Hunan province, before lunging at her and stabbing her in the hip area with a knife.
The man is then seen running from the scene as the woman collapses on the road and flags down a passing taxi.
The suspect, a 32-year-old unemployed man surnamed Liu from Shijiazhuang in Hebei province, was arrested in the eastern city of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province on Friday, Changsha’s Furong district police said in a statement on Weibo.
“At 4am on August 2, special task force police … arrested the suspect at the entrance to a bank in Pingxiang city’s Anyuan district,” the statement said. “He was found carrying a fruit knife, which is the suspected assault weapon.”
According to police, the suspect told officers he had felt depressed after drinking alcohol and had gone out onto the street by himself on Tuesday at about 1am.
