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Social media posts described what happened as a shooting and
shared images of a person slumped in a chair and another person
lying on the ground. The statement from the Qiaokou District
police branch in Wuhan didn't say what weapon had been used.
China has strict gun control laws, and reports of gun violence
are extremely rare. While some may be covered up by government
censorship of negative news, knife attacks appear to be more
common, as well as driving a vehicle into a crowd.
China's state-run media plays up reports of gun violence in the
U.S. in what is seen as part of a campaign to convince the
population that the nation's one-party, communist-led system is
better than America's democracy.
The attack on Sunday occurred in an area with a cluster of
restaurants with outdoor seating serving barbecued meat on
skewers.
A video of the aftermath, which has been taken down from social
media, shows a crowd of people milling around the well-lit,
nighttime scene, before emergency medical workers arrive and
bring out a stretcher to take the victims away.
In 2010, a man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a
court office in central China and killed three judges before
taking his own life. He reportedly held a grudge against the
court over a ruling in a property dispute between him and his
wife, who were getting divorced.
Wuhan is an industrial city on the Yangtze River in central
China. The Chinese government locked down the city in early 2020
in the first major outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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