March 14, 2014 -- Updated 1346 GMT (2146 HKT)
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."
Kunming terror attack
China was shocked by another deadly stabbing incident earlier this month
in southwest China. Eight men armed with long knives stormed a train
station in Kunming in Yunnan province, an attack which left 29 people
dead and more than 140 injured.
Four of the attackers were fatally shot by police; the other four arrested.
Members of a separatist
group from the restive far western region of Xinjiang are believed to
have carried out the terror attack, authorities said.
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