Police officers shot dead a man in downtown Shanghai yesterday
afternoon after a seven-hour standoff. The man had taken a
four-year-old girl hostage in a KFC outlet.
At around 3 PM on Wednesday, a middle-aged man entered the
restaurant and seized the young girl on the first floor of a
shopping mall on Yangliuqing Road in Putuo District.
At 9:40 PM, the man attempted to injure the girl with a knife at
which police were forced to shoot him. Local police attempted to
negotiate with the man but reported his attitude continually
worsened.
The girl escaped unharmed from her traumatic ordeal, police
said, and was safely reunited with her mother who had been in the
restaurant as her daughter was seized.
Police are still investigating the man's identity and any
possible motives.
(Xinhua News Agency June 7, 2007)
