China shooting spree ends with six dead

By artappraiser on Sun, 06/23/2013 - 2:31am |

One victim beaten to death and five others fatally shot in country where few own firearms and gun violence is rare

Associated Press in Beijing, June 23, 2013

In a rare case of gun violence in China a man fatally shot five people and beat a sixth to death, including some of his factory colleagues and a soldier, police have said.

The 62-year-old man's killing spree started when he used unspecified tools to beat a colleague to death over an economic dispute, according to Shanghai police. The man identified as having the surname Fan killed his colleague on Saturday afternoon at a chemical factory in Shanghai's Baoshan district, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said.

The bureau said Fan then took a hunting rifle that was hidden in his dormitory [.....]

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