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Images shared on social media showed the suspect wandering inside the supermarket two minutes after the attack started, as people were fleeing the scene. Other images showed victims of the attack either lying or sitting on the ground while waiting for help to arrive.
A 37-year-old suspect, surnamed Lin, was apprehended at the scene in Shanghai’s Songjiang district shortly after the attack. Lin went to Shanghai and carried out the attack “to vent his anger due to personal economic disputes,” police said. It was not immediately clear where Lin is originally from. The case remains under investigation, police said.
Eighteen people were sent to hospital for treatment, and three later died.
Police said Lin had personal financial disputes and came to Shanghai to “vent his anger,” and that further investigation is underway.
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