A man holding a kitchen knife caused a panicked crowd to flee at Guangzhou Railway Station Exit F Saturday evening. Police rushed to the site but found no abnormalities.
According to witnesses, on Saturday evening, a man near the exit was handing a kitchen knife, usually meant for cutting fruit. A female passenger saw him holding the knife shouted and caused a panic in a passage. All the passengers in the exit passage starting running to escape. The man left the scene, and there were no injuries.
A Netizen wrote that she saw a group of people screaming and running away from the station. She panicked and following the group to run, and told a stranger near her to run too.
A worker at the station said that there had been a rush to get out of the passage, but it had only lasted a few minutes.
Source: inews.qq.com
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Such scaredy cats. I guy is cutting fruit and they freak out .
Dec 01, 2015 20:20 Report Abuse
They should arrest and charge the screaming woman, not the knife holder.
Dec 01, 2015 16:58 Report Abuse
for cutting fruit? they must mean a potato peeler. so many workers have one tucked away in their working clothes.
Dec 01, 2015 14:11 Report Abuse
based on the photo with the article, it appears he was only carving into an apple presumably to eat it. Seems the Chinese are scared of their shadows these days...
Nov 30, 2015 21:41 Report Abuse
What a terrible and vague account of a situation. Details please!
Nov 30, 2015 18:46 Report Abuse