According to police, three people are killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack in Shanghai

HONG KONG – Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai on Monday evening, local police said. This was the latest in a series of such knife attacks in China.

All victims were immediately taken to hospital for treatment; Three of them died despite rescue efforts, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said in a statement on Tuesday. The others are not in life-threatening condition.

A 37-year-old suspect surnamed Lin was arrested at the scene in Shanghai's Songjiang district shortly after the attack. Lin traveled to Shanghai and carried out the attack “to vent his anger over personal economic disputes,” police said. It wasn't immediately clear where Lin is originally from.

The case remains under investigation, police said.

The incident, which occurred on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, continues a series of knife attacks across the country this year, some of which have targeted foreigners.

Last month, a 10-year-old Japanese boy died after being stabbed on his way to a Japanese school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, raising concerns about the safety of Japanese nationals in China. It was the second such attack on a Japanese citizen, after a Japanese woman and her child were injured in a knife attack in Suzhou in June and a Chinese passerby who tried to stop the attacker was killed.

In June, four U.S. university lecturers were injured, none critically, in a knife attack in a public park in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin.

Stabbings as an act of revenge against society are not uncommon in China.

In 2022, a man stabbed 15 people and seriously injured four minors in a hospital in Shanghai. A court said he committed the crime out of resentment against society after a failed investment and sentenced him to death.