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| Shooting in China's Hebei province |
Five people were killed, including two police officers, in a
shooting Tuesday in rural northern China, police said.
The early morning
shooting in Hebei province's Suning county marked a rare incidence of gun crime
in China, where private ownership of firearms is illegal.
The gunman, 40-year-old
Liu Shuangrui, who was among those killed, had suffered from paranoid
schizophrenia, according to a statement from the police department in the
surrounding municipality of Cangzhou. Liu turned a double-barreled shotgun on
his neighbors, killing two, before police arrived at the scene, the statement
said.
Two officers were then
shot to death, including the political commissar of the county police department,
before Liu was shot and killed, it said. Two other police officers were among
five people injured in the shooting.
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