Another knife massacre in China

Mike Gallagher

Mar 14, 2014 - 12:41

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' Investigators move a victim's body into a van at the scene where six people were killed

A FIGHT between two food stall owners at a market in southe China today left five people hacked to death and one person fatally shot by police, authorities said.

A dispute at the market in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, erupted in a knife fight that left one of the men dead, police said in a statement.

The other fled and slashed four more people while on the run before he was shot dead by police. Two of the four people died at the scene and the other two died in a hospital, police said.

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Six dead ... A victim's body is covered after five people were hacked to death before police shot another in Changsha, central China's Hunan province. Source: AFP

The killings came two weeks after 29 people were killed and 140 others wounded in a knife attack blamed on ethnic Muslim Uighur separatists at the Kunming train station, initially raising conces that the latest violence was ethnically motived.

The identity of the food stall owners was not immediately clear.