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Six people died after an argument between two vendors led to a stabbing spree at a market
in Hunan province in central China on Friday morning, local police told CNN.
The incident took place in Changsha city, the capital of the province.
One of the dead included a suspect in the attacks, police said.
According to an official statement from the city's police department, at round 10.15 a.m.
local time, two vendors got into a fight after a quarrel inside the Shahuqiao wet market
in the Wujialing neighborhood of Kaifu District in Changsha City.
One person was hacked to death. The fleeing perpetrator then stabbed at four innocent
bystanders, two of whom died on the scene. Police quickly responded and killed the perpetrator
upon arrival at the scene. The two injured bystanders were sent to hospital but later
died. The state-run Xinhua news agency identified
the two vendors as Hebir Turdi and Memet Abla. It said Turdi killed Abla before stabbing
four people as he fled, adding that he was eventually shot dead by police.
A witness working at a clinic nearby, who declined to be named, told CNN: "It was an
internal dispute. One of their own people got stabbed to death. An old lady walked out
of a shop there, and she was trying to mediate, saying: 'Don't do this. You can talk through
this.' Then she was suddenly hacked at. "The knives they were using were not long
-- just kitchen knives. I saw one dropped on the ground."