At least two people died and 21 were injured this Tuesday, May 7, in a hospital in Yunnan province (China) in an attack by a man who was initially announced to have left more than ten dead and whose circumstances are still unknown.

Local authorities and media initially reported that the event had left “10 victims”, a figure that, as they later clarified, did not specifically refer to fatalities. The incident took place at 1:20 p.m. local time (05:20 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency, which added that the authorities are “verifying and verifying” the situation.

“The situation is still somewhat chaotic,” a witness told The Paper newspaper, which states that the authorities are still counting the dead and injured. According to videos not yet verified, The assailant has already been captured by security forces outside the enclosure.

Hospital surveillance images distributed by the aforementioned media show a man in the hospital carrying at least two knives with which he proceeded to attack several people, after which several fell to the ground with injuries.

For the moment, the attacker’s motivesalthough several violent episodes in hospitals in the Asian country in 2016 caused the authorities to deploy armed police in these types of centers to stop attacks by patients or relatives against health personnel.

In 2020, the Asian giant enacted a health law that granted specific protection to medical personnel and prohibited threatening or endangering the safety of workers in the sector, although factors such as the scarcity of medical resources and the high cost of some treatments remain. source of conflicts.

In recent years, they have also been registered in China several incidents of stabbings or attacks against crowdswhich some Chinese media often refer to as “acts of revenge against society.”