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A raging man killed seven people, including a village Communist Party chief, before jumping off a bridge, officers said. The suspect surnamed Gao, stabbed to death a family of five, including two children, in Wuhan on Sunday, the city's police force said in a statement on its official Weibo microblog.
The suspect fatally wounded a passerby and a cab driver while trying to steal a car to escape, it added, saying he then jumped off a bridge over the Yangtze River early Monday morning.
The party chief of Xiaosi township, his wife, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were among those stabbed to death, state-run news site China.org reported.
China does not allow civilians to carry guns, and many violent crimes in recent decades have involved knives.
In February 2019, a man who suspected his wife of adultery stabbed eight others to death in a village in northwestern Gansu province.
In 2018, a knife-wielding man killed nine pupils outside a middle school in northern China's Shaanxi province.