On August 3, at around 2:30pm, a bus driver in Longhua, Shenzhen, was knifed in the line of duty. Video footage of the incident shows a young woman rushing onto the bus as soon as it stopped at a station in Baolong Xin Cun, shoving aside a passenger in her way. She then proceeded to slash a small knife across the driver's neck and exit as quickly as she came.
The attacker, wearing a striped shirt and glasses, shouldered her way onto the vehicle first.
She slashed a weapon across his neck briefly before running away.
The whole thing was over in seconds.
Someone called 110 and local police rushed to the scene, taking the driver to a nearby hospital where he's now in stable condition. By 9pm on the day of the attack, they had tracked the woman to a nearby alley, where she was hiding out, and brought her to the police station.
Initially, bystanders were mystified by the attack, which seemed to have come completely out of the blue. The driver, understandably, was more stunned when the stranger pulled a knife on him:
"At the time I was totally taken unawares, because the safety belt hadn’t been unbuckled yet, I couldn’t sit up and get out of the way; after being cut by her knife, just felt blood coming out of my neck."
"If [the cut] had been a little deeper it would have been bad," he commented.
In his five years of driving buses, he had never received any complaints.
Upon questioning by the police, the suspect, a 20-year-old from Henan whose last name is Liu, admitted the motive behind the attack: the driver's vehicle had splashed water on her.
According to her account, Liu had just finished shopping for some fruit (and a knife to cut it with) when she was splashed by a passing bus. At first she was planning to talk to the driver but in her anger, she slashed at him with a knife instead. In the heat of the moment, it happened to hit his neck. Afterwards, probably appalled by what she'd done, she ran away, looking for a place to hide.
The evidence seemed to corroborate her account. Police confiscated the attack weapon, which was indeed a fruit knife.
The weapon used in the attack
Her phone also contained messages she'd sent to her family after the incident, telling them what had happened and expressing her fear and worry over what to do next.
The decision was taken out of her hands after the police found her hideaway and took her into custody; the Longgang Public Safety Bureau is still looking into the incident.
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